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The roots of hydrotropism
Most plants are essentially rooted to a spot and immobile. While the factors they need for growth – e.g. sunlight, minerals, and water – are often present
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Plant Resources III: All the world’s trees in one place
If the POWO is not enough plant database for you [see my previous post], there is also a new database specifically for the world’s trees*
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Plant Resources II: All the world’s plants (at Kew!)
Well, not quite all. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is home to many living specimens of the world’s flora, and its collections of ‘dead
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Plant Resources I: Plant Image Bank
The power of images to convey information – especially in science communication which can often-times be quite complicated – is surely not in doubt. And that is
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Mabberley’s Plant-book, the book about plants
Mabberley’s Plant-Book A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses, 4th Edition by David J. Mabberley. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Some awe is
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What! Plants can hear water???
The idea that plants can hear is controversial, but Nigel Chaffey finds the evidence keeps building.
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Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
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Plants enjoying the high life
Plants on Plants – The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes by Gerhard Zotz. Springer 2016. Gerhard Zotz’s The biology of vascular epiphytes [hereafter referred to as Epiphytes!
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Volcanoes, unexpected spreaders of plant life
Inspiration for these plant-based blog items can come from the most unlikely of sources. This one in particular had a strange (and offbeat…) beginning. Whilst
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Plant anatomy goes back to its roots (stems, leaves…)
Does “Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy” cover the essentials of developmental plant anatomy? Nigel Chaffey looks over the introductory textbook.
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New PLANT journals (yay!)
Until this item, the last launch of a new plant journal I shared with you was for the august publication Nature Plants (although in its 3rd
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Snails living the high life
Nigel Chaffey finds a seasonal epiphyte with a head for heights.