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Your botanical ‘one-stop shop’
There are plant biology journals that seem to concentrate on a single taxon (you know the ones I mean!) – e.g. The Plant Journal and The
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Everything benefits from a little lift
Roots generally absorb water from the soil and transport it above ground to the stem, branches, etc. Where the soil is too dry for water to
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A positive plethora of plant papers!
The Scientist, as a general science news item site, occasionally features plant-related items, but it has surpassed itself with its January 2014 collection.
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Caught in the act…
A revelation concerning amber-encased plant material suggests current sexual reproduction in angiosperms may have changed little in over 100 million years.
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Science: for the sheer fun of it!
Richard Flavell promotes the view that observation-driven studies have a place in science.
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What’s in a name..? (The whole world!)
Scientific names of plants are a great way to study geography, history, births of nations, or any other aspect of world knowledge.
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Feel the force!
Plants are remarkably sensitive to their environment, responding by appropriate growth and development to a wide range of environmental stimuli. In the case of gravity, the
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You can’t be best at everything…
There is a widespread belief that everything in/of/from/about America is bigger, better, faster, etc, than anything from elsewhere in the world. That is
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More myth-busting!
It’s a tribute to the fantasticness of plants – and photosynthesis in particular – that even animals want to be like them. Arguably, none more so than
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Ouch! That must hurt…
The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana seems not to be such a good model after all
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Temperature: getting it right
Have we been measuring temperature incorrectly all along?
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Money doesn’t grow on trees… (2) [Or, From cuddly koalas to bird poo…]
Could the koala’s diet of eucalyptus result in gold?