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Algae found under teenager’s bed…
17 year old Sara Volz wins $100 000 scholarship from Intel Science Talent Search for her experiment on algae that she kept under her bed.
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Alice in the Wonderland of plants…
Military campaigns are sometimes intended to display ‘shock’ and ‘awe’ to overcome the adversary. Well – and rather less militaristically – Yiannis Manetas’ book, Alice in the Land
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Prizes for plant sites
Since late in 2012, Singapore Botanic Gardens has had ‘Tentative’ UNESCO world heritage status, but now wants to attain full recognition.
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Prizes for plant scientists
Why are botanical FRSs like buses? You wait for ages for one to come along, and then three appear at once! On a more serious note,
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Because they’re not red(!)
Although red algae contain green chlorophyll, their red coloration is a result of large amounts of non-green pigments such as phycoerythrin.
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Blessed are the peas-makers…
Given the importance of chickpeas, arguably the more genomes the better, not least in helping efforts to develop more drought-tolerant forms.
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The positives of parasitic plants(!)
Parasitic plants tend to get a bad press. Unfairly?
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An over-abundance of nitrogen…?
Nitrogen is an essential macronutrient for plants – they cannot complete their life cycle without it – and is needed in relatively large amounts.
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Gum’s the word
There are two types of people in the world: those who chew gum, and those who don’t.
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Has spring sprung yet?
It’s not just humans waiting for Spring – recent research reveals that microbes are also looking forward to the new growth of plants.
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Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
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Time for some carbs, now
Carbohydrates and plants means more than just sucrose, starch and cellulose.