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Some flowers only smell at day and some only at night, but how did they evolve these different rhythms? In our study, we investigate if populations of the same orchid species that are more pollinated either at day or at night show different scent emission rhythms.
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If I told you that during a 200m walk down a suburban London street I saw 13 different species from one group of organisms, you might
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Probably the one thing one could guess about an insectivorous plant is that it ‘eats’ insects. Take for example one of the most iconic entomophagous botanics
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What nutrients do you consider to be important to a plant? What do plants need to be successful, to grow, photosynthesise, develop and defend themselves effectively
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Philip White takes a peek into the future. What papers are likely to become ‘citation classics’?
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Not much I suspect. And it’s probably not that important that any of us do in the so-called developed world where we don’t
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Semiosis by Sue Burke, 2018. Tor Books. First, two ‘spoiler alerts’ *. One, this book views plants in a much more enlightened way than those of a
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It is sometimes claimed that laughter is the best medicine. Joking apart, it’s probably better documented, and arguably more evidence-based [e.g. The King’
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At Cuttings HQ we love a new botany journal – even if it’s technically described as a serial. So, we were really pleased to find out
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Eithne Browne, Research Masters student at NUI Galway, explains how she started her research with industry as part of her research degree in at NUI Galway.
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Seaweed protein in your food could help you to reduce your blood pressure and the risk to suffer heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases.
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In the cell cycle, the G1 phase can be like a prison, where plant cells are arrested, unable to divide. These cells have been arrested for different reasons, serving sentences of different lengths. So how and why did they get there?