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New form of photosynthesis that’s above par
PAR is the acronym for Photosynthetically-Active Radiation, and refers to light with wavelengths of 400 – 700 nm, the so-called visible spectrum, from red to
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Taking Glycine to the max!
The Story of Soy by Christine du Bois 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Before encountering Christine du Bois’ book, The Story of Soy, I had little real
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A tiny silver bullet for cut flowers?
The cut flower industry – wherein stems of intact growing flowering plants are removed, and transported from their place of growth to a place of purchase by
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Let’s go down to the forest … to bathe!
Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Qing Li, Viking, 2018 If you go down to the woods today, you’re
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Flowers (it’s what angiosperms are all about!)
Although one shouldn’t, it is easy to accept that flowers (the defining feature of the angiosperms, the flowering plants) are ‘just there’ and get on
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The cosmopolitan Compositae (or Sunflowers at large…)
Sunflowers by Stephen Harris 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Stephen Harris’ Sunflowers isn’t about sunflowers. OK, correction, it is, but it’s not just about sunflowers.
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When plant biology meets physics…
Great things are possible when disciplines that may be studied separately and distinctly are brought together. For example, and famously, when botany, zoology, bacteriology, mycology, protistology,
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Inspiring the Botanists of the future
Part of the goal of Plant Cuttings items is to share news of botanical research with the wider plant-minded community, the better to advertise that
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Mouldy concrete is fit for purpose
When mould gets a grip on a building, it can hold it together.
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Root hairs to halt global warming
Can plants help fight global warming? Nigel Chaffey looks to the roots.
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Outer space comes to Cambridge
Some saxifrages are almost literally out of this world.
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Discovering Discoveries in the Garden
Discoveries in the garden by James Nardi, 2018. University of Chicago Press. I must have reached some level of fame because a few weeks ago a