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The Story of Soy by Christine du Bois 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Before encountering Christine du Bois’ book, The Story of Soy, I had little real idea about what soy was. OK, as a botanist I know it was a legume, Glycine max, I’d heard of – and used, occasionally too liberally! – soy sauce, […] More
What would you imagine was carried along the Silk Road(s), that ancient route that connected the far-East to the near-East and Europe? Silks? Well, yes, and spices, etc. (and not forgetting traffic in infectious human diseases). But those are tangible, tradable, items, ‘things’. What is being better appreciated nowadays is that it was also ideas […] More
What! That’s news?? Surely everybody knows that many plants are pollinated by bees? Hopefully, yes, but this item is not about that well-known plant-insect association. OK, but does it feature mammoths? No, but it does have an elephantine dimension. Having laboured long and hard to plant and grow crops – to feed the family, and […] More
Where have all the flower-pollinating insects have gone? More
This excellent news is no surprise to followers of Bill and Ted. More
The fight against pathogens in plants is moving to less familiar states of matter. More
How fast does wheat need to be? You might look for taste and texture in a loaf, but why would anyone care about speed? More
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on – as Nigel Chaffey finds out. More
What does it mean to work towards Sustainable Development? Pat Heslop-Harrison, editor of Annals of Botany, has been discussing the issue in Brussels with European stakeholders. More
Thanks to a new tool, botanists have the power to observe and operate in even more remote parts of the world than before. More
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry. More
For years the tale of how the inhabitants of Easter Island depleted their soils and destroyed their ecosystem has been a cautionary tale for western civilisation. There’s just one problem with this as a historical warning – it seems that it never happened. More
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