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Do the small things to make a big difference

Esther Ngumbi - 0
Across Europe, students and young people are taking a stance on climate change and demanding action. From Belgium to Germany, youth-led climate protests are...
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What’s Not a Nut?

Alun Salt - 1
'May contain nuts', but what is a nut? A quiz to annoy your friends with.
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To drink, or not to drink – do trees coordinate their water supply with environmental conditions?

Joseph Stinziano - 0
Predicting future responses of trees to drought is notoriously difficult, requiring consideration of many factors, including temperature, soil type, and how trees regulate their...
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Wassailing to wake the trees

Fi Gennu - 0
January 17 marks twelfth night in the Julian Calendar. It also marks the traditional night of wassailing, a ritual to drive evil spirits from the orchard.
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Why are/aren’t we following you on Twitter?

Alun Salt - 0
Who do we follow on Twitter? Here's why we follow people and why we don't.
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Non-Specific Phospholipase C2 (NPC2) in plant immune responses in Arabidopsis

Annals of Botany Office - 0
The non-specific phospholipases C (NPC) are recently discovered new subclass of plant phospholipases. Most of them have not yet been characterised thoroughly. Krčková et al....
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Can plants escape from an arms race?

Alun Salt - 0
It's easy to see how herbivory could lead to defences in plants, but what happens when the attackers start using those expensive defences for their own benefit?
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The Return of the Rainbow Rose

Alun Salt - 0
One of our most popular posts is Roses are red – but they don’t need to be, if you know how to use food...
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The Hungry Gap: Food for temperate February and March

Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison - 0
Have we banished the hungry gap? Pat Heslop-Harrison has been talking to BBC Radio Leicester.
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Poképlants

Alun Salt - 0
It's Friday afternoon, so I'm relaxing with a video, in this case the latest from Brilliant Botany, a follow up to the earlier video,...
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Ecology and genetics of transitions from outcrossing to selfing in Primula

Annals of Botany Office - 0
Investigations of Primula oreodoxa have revealed several features that differ from classic textbook descriptions of heterostyly based on P. vulgaris.
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Choosing learning over knowing

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Is academia about having the right answers to problems? Emily Larson argues that it's the process of getting there that's important.
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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?

Ecosystems Fi Gennu - 0
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?

Computational Models Alex Assiry - 0
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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