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Wassailing to wake the trees
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.
Using genome diversity for the environment, livelihoods and tropical grasslands
Pat Heslop-Harrison (with collaborators listed below) examines why it’s not just humans that need better crops.
For the Pineapple Lily, attraction is a matter of chemistry
Eucomis regia, the pineapple lily, doesn’t attract insects or birds to pollinate it. So how does it reproduce?
When did the first flowers open?
Finding out when the earliest ancestor of the flowering plants evolved has been difficult. Estimates have been wildly different, depending on the method you use.
The act of drawing can teach more about Botanical morphology than writing
A study comparing descriptive writing with botanical drawing has found that both methods aid learning about taxonomy. However, drawing subjects captured more morphological information.
Go Fungal!
It’s a belated present, the PDF of the handout we’ve been using on stands for Botany One.
Can plants fast forward to the future to show us what will happen as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases?
A new analysis suggests that long-term, multi-generational response of plants to rising CO2 are similar to those found in single generation FACE experiments, with consequences for continued global greening and future higher rates of photosynthesis.
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