Clover, broccoli, and an AIDS-busting plant
Nigel Chaffey starts a series celebrating the human life-sustaining potential of plants…
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The Hungry Gap: Food for temperate February and March
Have we banished the hungry gap? Pat Heslop-Harrison has been talking to BBC Radio Leicester.
Aridification as driver of plant evolution
Aridification has been a major force in cycad evolution, says José Said Gutiérrez-Ortega. It helps to explain why cycads were capable to adapt and diversify in the modern habitats, even when they originated in the early evolution of land plants.
Does this seedling taste fishy to you…? ***
NIgel Chaffey returns with another tale of asyníthchory, this time involving fish.
Citation Classics in Plant Sciences since 1992
Philip White asks what are the classic papers in plant sciences, and highlights a method that allows you to produce your own lists for your field or sub-field.
Plant collections and flowers for the start of the year #Countryfile
Why do we collect plants? Pat Heslop-Harrison finds out with the BBC television show Countryfile.
Not one, but two second messengers?
Confusingly, a second second messenger is not a third messenger.
Phytopathological future for plasma
The fight against pathogens in plants is moving to less familiar states of matter.
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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