Nigel Chaffey
600 posts
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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Ouch! That must hurt…
The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana seems not to be such a good model after all
Temperature: getting it right
Have we been measuring temperature incorrectly all along?
Money doesn’t grow on trees… (2) [Or, From cuddly koalas to bird poo…]
Could the koala’s diet of eucalyptus result in gold?
Spotlight on macronutrients: Hydrogen (and oxygen…)
No matter how well we think we understand water, there are always more surprises to uncover.
Spotlight on macronutrients : Carbon (mainly)
Whilst members of the Plant Kingdom might dominate terrestrial biomes, non-Plant Kingdom members are the major photosynthetic organisms in aquatic habitats
Money doesn’t grow on trees..?
The opioid analgesic ‘Tramadol’ is found to occur naturally in the root bark of the sub-Saharan shrub Nauclea latifoli
Nietzsche reprised
Poisonous Euphorbia damarana didn’t kill gemsbok, but instead, made them stronger under challenging environmental conditions.
Celebrating basic plant science
A new series of blog posts aims to present vignettes of current plant science research within a broader remit of promoting the importance of plant science.
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