Kew’s funding: ‘a recipe for failure’?
Kew Gardens works on ensuring our future as a species on this planet, but with funding cuts, we may be facing crisis talks about Kew’s continued security.
Nigel Chaffey
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I am a Botanist and former Senior Lecturer in Botany at Bath Spa University (Bath, near Bristol, UK). As News Editor for the Annals of Botany I contributed the monthly Plant Cuttings column to that in
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A review of ‘Nature Plants’, the latest offering from the Nature Publishing Group.
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Plant parts doing unexpected things: Part 2 (or, Root research all up in the air)
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2015 International Year of…
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Warning: Aposematism Alert!
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MPs fiddle with Nature…
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The 1001st use of bamboo?
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