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All the world’s plants are in here (well, almost…)
Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants by Maarten JM Christenhusz, Michael F Fay and Mark W Chase, 2017. Kew Publishing/University of
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Clover, broccoli, and an AIDS-busting plant
Nigel Chaffey starts a series celebrating the human life-sustaining potential of plants…
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Does this seedling taste fishy to you…? ***
NIgel Chaffey returns with another tale of asyníthchory, this time involving fish.
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What do you know about leaves???
Nature’s Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture by David Lee, 2017. University of Chicago Press. Ever so occasionally one comes across a book that makes
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Not one, but two second messengers?
Confusingly, a second second messenger is not a third messenger.
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Phytopathological future for plasma
The fight against pathogens in plants is moving to less familiar states of matter.
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Meet the real fungi…
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money, 2016. Oxford University Press. As much as I would like to think that plants are the most
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Diving into the neglected world of seaweeds
Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland, 2nd edition by Francis StP. D. Bunker, Juliet A. Brodie, Christine A. Maggs and Anne R. Bunker, 2017. Wild Nature Press.
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Plant records: Can a plant be too trusting?
Name: Orchids Scientific name: Family: Orchidaceae Known for: Beauty, epiphytism, providing vanilla flavouring, tiny seeds, mycorrhizae, deceptive pollination, mycoheterotrophy, medicinal usage, vegetating Krakatoa… Record broken: The
Plant Cuttings
Food that really might taste like sawdust
A common complaint of food, for many reasons, is that it ‘tastes like sawdust’. Although that description is subjective – the food doesn’t contain sawdust even
Plant Cuttings
Plant life at the temperature limit?
It’s not just microbes that can live under extreme conditions. Some plants thrive in situations many other life forms simply could not tolerate.
Plant Cuttings
Seed dispersal, the Ecuadorian dimension…
Rather belatedly in our look at animals and seed dispersal, we have our Darwin connection (after all, what biological item would be complete without mention of