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Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?

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It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is...
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Books

Ancient botany for the 21st century

Nigel Chaffey - 1
Vergil's Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans, and the Divine by Rebecca Armstrong, 2019. Oxford University Press.
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Plants & People

Grow your own Martian salad

Alun Salt - 0
A Martian diet might aid your health on Earth (but there are probably better interventions you should try first)
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Plants & People

Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…

Nigel Chaffey - 2
School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?
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Plants from different climates can react to drought in similar ways

Growth & Development Alex Assiry - 0
How do plants react when circumstances change? One method can be to evolve a local adaptation. Another can be be phenotypic plasticity,...
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Not All Pine Needles Are Identical: Lower Crown Loss in Pinus radiata

Growth & Development Fi Gennu - 0
When fungal infection comes to Pinus radiata, it can run through the bottom of the crown of the tree, removing its leaves....
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How do you get more DNA down a pollen tube?

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
A common event for flowering plants is whole genome duplication (WGD), where a plant gets extra chromosomes. It’s often studied in mature...
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Simulating the effects of local adaptation and life history on the ability of plants to track climate shifts

Computational Models William Salter - 0
Local adaptation is common but not universal in plants and results from the interplay of gene flow with natural selection. Gene flow...
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