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Colourfully cunning cryptoflorigraphic conundrum
Stephen Bax has now claimed to have begun to decipher the Voynich manuscript and suggests it is probably a treatise on nature.
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An explosive mix: C4, C3, C2 and CCM
How many more variants exist amongst the 325,000 species of flowering plants (let alone all the algae and other members of the plant kingdom)?
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Cause for optimism (maybe not…)
There’s an insufficiency of people to grow the new crops that aren’t being identified because of the dearth of plant taxonomists. Where will it all end..?
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One of a kind…
Rare and monotypic Amborella is probably the living – extant – flowering plant closest evolutionarily to the first true member of the angiosperm group.
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A day in the life…
The Node’s ‘a day in the life of a …’ series is designed to give insights into the working of the labs – and the people – that try to unravel development,
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Plant Cell – all change at the top
The ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists) has named Professor Sabeeha Merchant as the next Editor-in-Chief of The Plant Cell
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Plantspersons in the public eye…
The razzle-dazzle of the luvvie-filled media circi that celebrate the celebrities of the entertainment world, such as the UK’s Baftas and the USA-
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Grow with the flow…
Results strongly suggest that cytoplasmic streaming is a key determinant of plant size.
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Spotlight on macronutrients (…and finally): Magnesium and a food fight…
Whilst incorporation of essential elements into the body of the plant is undoubtedly important for and to the wellbeing of the plant, their presence in those
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Spotlight on macronutrients: Touchy-feely calcium…
Calcium (Ca) acts – amongst other things! – as a so-called ‘second messenger’, and participates in many processes of plant growth and development.
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Spotlight on macronutrients: Stressed-out sulphur…
The presence of sulfur in seagrasses and coral can indicate stresses caused by oxygen-poor areas of the ocean floor, and global warming.
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Spotlight on macronutrients (Part 2): Nitrogen, in a bit of a fix…
In this and my next few posts we conclude our look at essential plant macronutrients that started in some previous articles, and this time concentrate on