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.
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 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.
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.
Science: for the sheer fun of it!
Richard Flavell promotes the view that observation-driven studies have a place in science.
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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