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Experimental Eating in Food: Delicious Science
Food: Delicious Science connects food, science, and people compellingly. The stories is presents are a good resource for instructors and those looking for ways to deepen
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Plant Records: The ever thirsty sugarcane
You might like a drink at Christmas, but Jenna Loiseau finds that sugarcane is REALLY thirsty.
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Plant records: Unexpectedly exciting early photosynthesis
An event buried in ‘The Boring Billion’ might have been the most important incident to transform the planet.
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Plant records: Can a plant be too trusting?
Name: Orchids Scientific name: Family: Orchidaceae Known for: Beauty, epiphytism, providing vanilla flavouring, tiny seeds, mycorrhizae, deceptive pollination, mycoheterotrophy, medicinal usage, vegetating Krakatoa… Record broken: The
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Plant Records: Big Problem. Big Experiments. Big Data.
Laura Crook opens our Plant Records series for this year with black-grass, a problem for cereal farmers.
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Mistletoe-ing around the tree reduces growth in forests
It might seem romantic, but the last thing a tree wants is an embrace under mistletoe.
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Creative Destruction: How Death Leads to Function
Marcos Buckeridge explains how death and destruction in sugarcane roots can lead to the development of gas spaces, which improve root function.
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Bamboosting growth: why does bamboo grow so fast?
What is it that gives bamboo its rapid growth? One team has been looking for the answer not with the fastest plants, but with the slower variants to see what they lack.
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Communicating Science and Scicomm career advice from Sci Comm Camp
What does it mean to be a Science Communicator? What tips can you pick up from others? Ian Street has been finding out at this year’s Sci Comm Camp.
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Choosing learning over knowing
Is academia about having the right answers to problems? Emily Larson argues that it’s the process of getting there that’s important.
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ePlant: A Comprehensive Data Visualization Tool for Plant Biologists
The advent and breadth of bioinformatics resources have made scientist’s jobs easier. Before jumping into wet lab work, they are able to parse gene targets
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3 Ways To Investigate Herbicide Resistance In Weeds
How does the evolution of herbicide resistance relate to plant physiology? A new paper in AoB PLANTS suggests a few ways to find out.