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Books

What real people think about plants

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Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants by Roy Vickery, 2019. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Plants & People

Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?

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It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is...
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Plants & People

Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…

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School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?
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Conferences

The Big Botany Challenge – promoting passion for plants in our schools!

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Jonathan Mitchley on a symposium coming to Reading University in November to help fight plant blindness.
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Plant Cuttings

Check beneath your boots…

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When people mention plant blindness* they tend to focus on the ‘lack of appreciation of the role of plants in the world’ notion. That...
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Plant Cuttings

Raising awareness of plant blindness

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Readers of this column will know that there is a problem with the inability – or unwillingness – of people generally to appreciate plants....
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Books

Discovering Discoveries in the Garden

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Discoveries in the garden by James Nardi, 2018. University of Chicago Press. I must have reached some level of fame because a few weeks...
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Digital Researcher

iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness

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Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
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Plant Cuttings

Tree rings stop cell division in plants

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This week Nigel Chaffey finds he has a vision problem that needs more than a trip to the optician.
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Plant Cuttings

Promoting the planet’s plants-and-people future [Or, Probably the best jobs in British Botany…]

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We’re not in the habit of posting job advertisements in this column – especially when the application deadlines will have long passed when this...
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Most Read

Botanists Pull Apart the Genes of Bananas to See How They Came Together

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
Banana genes reveal how they may have passed through other hybrid stages.
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Sympatric moss populations can form true hybrid zones

Close Encounters Erin Zimmerman - 0
Hybridization between species has not been considered an important factor in the evolution of mosses. The moss life cycle has led many...
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A key protein may help trigger germination in Arabidopsis seeds

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
Seed germination is a critical step in the life cycle of flowering plants. Since seeds contain limited reserves, seed germination has to...
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Daffodils and Snowdrops react differently to warming seasons

Growth & Development Fi Gennu - 0
Daffodils and Snowdrops need the right temperatures in a few seasons to germinate. Will a changing climate cause problems?
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