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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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Where do Chloroplasts go to die?
Even plants find it healthy to eat their greens.
Reducing P uptake by plants
Some things are hard to digest, but is an excess of phosphorus really one of them?
Carnivory, more than meets the eye…
No morsel of the victim is wasted when a plant traps its prey.
Dragons, coconuts and skyscrapers…
Botanists aren’t always genetic engineers. This week Nigel Chaffey finds some have branched out into civil engineering.
Can kelp help halt human hubris?
If we hope kelp is going to mitigate climate change, then we might need to think again about over-fishing and kelp harvesting.
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