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Brilliant bird-brained bryophyte diaspore diaspora…
There is an ancient and time-honoured association – maybe co-evolution even – between birds and flowering plants, e.g. in respect of pollination and dispersal of
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For they are jolly good fellows
We’d like to congratulation two recently appointed plant-biological Fellows of the Royal Society: Professor Liam Dolan FRS and Professor David Beerling FRS.
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Bloody royal French gourd debunked
One of the most unusual plant-based items that has come to my notice recently is this rather ‘quirky’ item that sheds a forensic botany light
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Sponsor a genome…?
Crowdfunding is being used to help sequence the genome of Azolla filiculoides by a team fromProfessor Kathleen Pryer’s Seed-Free Vascular Plants laboratory.
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Clear way ahead for leaf research
Scientific Data: an open-access, online-only journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, to help publish, discover & reuse research data.
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M people and the ‘B’ word…
No, this is not an item about M People, an ‘English house music band which formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s’
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New plant journal
It just had to happen, but we didn’t know it would take nearly 150 years to come to fruition. And fruition is an apt word
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Something fishy in the veggie patch…
Omega FA-enriched fish in GM-enhanced camelina oil could be a new non-marine source of fatty acids.
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Plants, the inside story
Flowering plants devoid of leaves, roots, shoots and some without chloroplast DNA. Are they really plants? Discuss!
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Sugar versus Auxin: which is dominant?
Of the plethora of aspects of plant growth and development that the hormone (OK, plant growth regulator…) auxin is implicated in/involved with (e.g. embryo
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Dodgy photos dog phytology
The normally genteel world of botanical research has been shaken, stirred and shocked to its very core by a retraction of a paper.
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The trees have it…
Tons of alternative tree uses! Trees, helping to make the world an even more amazing place.