Reviews
Plant Lives: A timely coincidence
Plant Life: A Brief History. Frederick Essig. Oxford University Press, 2015 A phenomenon I thought only applied to buses was that you wait for ages for
Plant Cuttings
Botanists on the move
We reveal a traveling merry-go-round and highlight the exploits of some of our fellow botanists!
Plant Cuttings
Bearded bardic botanist, bruised but not bested?
Could the mysterious portrait of a bearded man within a botany herbal be none-other than the greatest English writer William Shakespeare?
Reviews
The Triumph of Hanson
An appreciation of The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson. Basic
Plant Cuttings
Illuminating the mesocosm…
Constant light sources during the night have profound consequences on aphid populations in grassland ecosystems
Plant Cuttings
Hay makes cheese holier…?
The mystery of holey cheese solved with hay!
Plant Cuttings
Cures: Ancient and Modern…
Ancient medical text books may hold the key to fighting many modern diseases.
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Plant Cuttings
Looks like leaf-like lizards live longer
Draco cornutus lizards live longer thanks to leaf-like colouration and mimicry.
Plant Cuttings
Plants: nature’s sponge?
Can peppermint cure the ill-effects of second-hand smoking?
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Lowering the bar (well, probably removing it completely…)
Are univariate scatterplots the key to successful data presentation in scientific writing?
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Trees, good for the spirit (and the mind…)
Do trees make us happier?
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Don’t ignore the ‘orphans’!
The FAO has launched a ‘traditional crop of the month’ site to generate more appreciation of the nutritional – and often medical – benefits of food plants.