Nigel Chaffey
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I am a Botanist and former Senior Lecturer in Botany at Bath Spa University (Bath, near Bristol, UK). As News Editor for the Annals of Botany I contributed the monthly Plant Cuttings column to that in
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Experiments versus real-world studies
How close are experiments to nature? The answer isn’t clean cut, partly because nature is messy.
A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on – as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
The 3 Ps of plant science publishing
Mr Cuttings hears of a new journal launched this summer, and is appropriately excited.
Seed dispersal that’s hard to swallow
The argan tree doesn’t have to be annoying to really get your goat.
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