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What’s the best [botanical…] use for a 3-D printer?
Not only can you take flowers apart, with a 3D printer you can put together flowers the way YOU want.
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Whither botanical accuracy? ***
The Botanical Accuracy weblog, curated by Lena Struwe (Botanist of New Jersey (USA) is a phenomenon, and a revelation!
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Where are new species found?
If students were ever to ask me “Sir [I do like to think they would show due deference and respect when addressing their professors…], where do
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Cupins: What are they for?
First, we ought to say what cupins are: cupins are proteins, part of a so-called superfamily that includes enzymes and non-enzyme polypeptides. Since the
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The future’s bright, the future’s blue (and quite green…)
Springer Handbook of Marine Biotechnology. Edited by Se-Kwon Kim. Springer, 2015. Why is a botanist reviewing a handbook on marine biotechnology? For the same reason
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The interconnectedness of plant studies
Have you ever wondered how the monthly Plant Cuttings’ collection comes to be? Do you think Mr P Cuttings knows in advance what he’s going
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Decision time: Inorganic or Organic..?
Plants need appropriate amounts of essential nutrients if they are to grow fully and generate the yield of which they are capable. Quite often, however, one
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Shedding light on plant – and animal – biology…
Photobiology [the science of light and life], 3rd Edition. Edited by Lars Olaf Björn. Springer, 2015. As botanists (for such I assume most of this blog
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A sensuous botanical delight
The Botanical Treasury. Christopher Mills. University of Chicago Press, 2016. What’s better than a glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales? A glorious book
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A fresh look at guard cell walls
Arguably, one of the best known ‘structure-function’ relationships in plant biology is the role played by cellulose microfibrils within the walls of the guard cells
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Bigging-up [plant] microtechniques
Plant Microtechniques and Protocols Edited by Edward Yeung, Claudio Stasolla, Michael Sumner and Bing Huang. Springer, 2015. As one who has wrestled with published protocols to
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Botany, a load of rubbish?
Caught your attention? No, I’m not about to rubbish Botany, but this item does focus on a particular type of biological ‘rubbish’, leaf-litter.