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Algae found under teenager’s bed…
17 year old Sara Volz wins $100 000 scholarship from Intel Science Talent Search for her experiment on algae that she kept under her bed.
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Thinking outside the plant: Plant science with impact
‘What is a plant?’ I imagine that none of the four speakers at the Society for Experimental Biology’s (SEB) ‘Science with Impact’ session had expected
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Root elongation growth and lunisolar tidal acceleration
Correlative evidence suggests a relationship between the lunisolar tidal acceleration and the elongation rate of Arabidopsis thaliana roots grown under conditions of constant low light. Barlow
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When should it be Green Sunday?
Recently the charming rogue Cliff Arnall made the news again. This time it was a rehash of his ‘happiest day of the year’ formula which he
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How learned societies can boost your scientific career
Anne Osterrieder is a Research and Science Communication Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Over the next few days I’ll be blogging from the annual meeting
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Inside the Kiwi fruit for July’s cover image
The July insert cover image shows the berry section of kiwifruit, Actinidia deliciosa; the blue spots are stained vascular bundles. In common with many other fruits,
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Post-shedding seed development in Galanthus and Narcissus
Seeds of the moist temperate woodland species Galanthus nivalis and Narcissus pseudonarcissus, which disperse during spring or early summer, germinate poorly in laboratory tests. Newton et
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Alice in the Wonderland of plants…
Military campaigns are sometimes intended to display ‘shock’ and ‘awe’ to overcome the adversary. Well – and rather less militaristically – Yiannis Manetas’ book, Alice in the Land
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Decoupled variation in floral and vegetative traits
In flowering plants with specialized pollination, a tight fit is expected between floral and pollinator morphologies, and variation in flower size is likely to be maladaptive
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A change of template
We’ve changed the template here. It’s based on the Twenty Thirteen theme that will launch with the next version of WordPress. It means I
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Prizes for plant sites
Since late in 2012, Singapore Botanic Gardens has had ‘Tentative’ UNESCO world heritage status, but now wants to attain full recognition.
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para-Aminobenzoic acid elicits induced resistance against pathogens
para-Aminobenzoic acid has potential as a water-soluble and safe application for crop protection under field conditions.