Plants, grafty little critters…
Plants seem to have hit upon an asexual method that can give rise to new species.
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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Garlic and octopus battle tree disease
An allicin-based solution has been shown to treat trees infected with fungal diseases.
Prize-winning banana research
Kiyoshi Mabuchi et al. won an award at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in 2014, for their work investigating ‘why bananas are slippery’.
Timeless inner beauty…
This study of the fossilised stem of a royal fern in Lahar deposits from Korsaröd in Scania includes cellular details that are ‘exquisitely preserved’.
Better together…
A study shows coral polyps actively generate micro-currents and eddies to promote nutrient inflow and exchange of materials using externally located cilia.
![Strasburger’s Plant Sciences [Including Prokaryotes and Fungi]](/content/images/size/w2000/botany-one/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/rev-strasburger2013bookcover.jpg)
Strasburger’s Plant Sciences [Including Prokaryotes and Fungi]
Strasburger’s Plant Sciences textbook reviewed…
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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