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Three kinds of algae? Blooming marvellous news!

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Bloom: From food to fuel, the epic story of how algae can save our world by Ruth Kassinger 2019. Elliott & Thompson. As a Botanist,...
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Read all about it: Plants that get their own back on animals

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Carnivorous Plants by Dan Torre 2019. Reaktion Books Ltd. In the same way that it’s become something of a tradition that books about seeds should...
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Between scientists and journalists, the PIO

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Handbook for Science Public Information Officers by W. Matthew Shipman, 2015. The University of Chicago Press. This book had been on my 'to-read' list for...
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Primroses and primulas aplenty

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Primrose by Elizabeth Lawson, 2019. Reaktion Books Ltd. To the uninitiated, it may seem rather improbable that anybody can write 288 pages about the primrose....
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Visually stunning: Flora for juvenile – and adult – fauna

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Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants by DK with contribution by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2018. Dorling Kindersley. Dorling Kindersley’s Flora: Inside the...
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From Emerald Planet to Eden with Prof. Beerling

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Making Eden by David Beerling, 2019. Oxford University Press. Almost 12 years ago I reviewed David Beerling’s previous book The Emerald Planet. I was very...
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Wood-wide web wins world-renowned writing award

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The Overstory by Richard Powers, 2018. William Heinemann. As a would-be botanical educator who’s reviewed a lot of botany texts over the years, I don’t...
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Teaching plant anatomy, via hangman?

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Plant Anatomy: A Concept-Based Approach to the Structure of Seed Plants by Richard Crang, Sheila Lyons-Sobaski and Robert Wise, 2018. Springer. I suspect that anybody...
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A tropical botany delight

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Atlas of Poetic Botany by Francis Hallé with Éliane Patriarca, translated by Erik Butler, 2018. The MIT Press. Let’s start this book appreciation with a...
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Bigging-up Bill’s botany

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Mr Guilfoyle’s Shakespearian Botany, Edited by Diana E Hill and Edmée Cudmore, 2018. The Miegunyah Press. It is acknowledged that English wordsmith William Shakespeare (Bill…)...
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Roses (hip-hip hooray!)

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Rose by Catherine Horwood 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Apparently, the rose is the world’s favourite flower. It’s not mine. I therefore seem to find myself...
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Bring on the birch!

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Birch by Anna Lewington 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. “Miserable, naked, hungry”. These three little words are used by the Phytophactor (the ‘nom de blog’ of Illinois...
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What creates Gentiana diversity in mountains?

Taxonomy & Evolution Fi Gennu - 0
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is extremely rich in species, but why? One recent explanation is the mountain‐geobiodiversity hypothesis (MGH) by Mosbrugger et...
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Modelling Three-Dimensional Leaf Shape Variation

Computational Models Rachel Shekar - 0
L-Cucumber’s leaf prototype mimics leaf shape of stressed plants.
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How does variation in traits of Tunisian oak seeds affect survival?

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Oaks are the dominant species of tree in many Mediterranean forests. However, the climate of the Mediterranean basin is predicted to change...
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How Important Is Leaf Realism in Functional-Structural Plant Modelling?

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Making a realistic plant in a computer model is possible, but is it necessary. All the computations generating the plant slow down...
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