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Plant Cuttings

A photo of a chainsaw in a pile of sawdust.

Plant Cuttings

Plastic pollution: Plants fight back!

Researchers have developed a novel filter, made from tannic-acid treated sawdust which may help reduce plastic pollution, while another approach has been presented to create a backyard-compostable bioplastic, using spirulina.

Nigel Chaffey · 1 Sep 2023

Plant blindness eradicated *

Plant Cuttings

Plant blindness eradicated *

Plant blindness [PB] is the term coined by James Wandersee & Elisabeth Schussler (The American Biology Teacher 61(2): 82–86, 1999; https://doi.org/10.

Nigel Chaffey · 9 Oct 2020

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part IV

Plant Cuttings

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part IV

This is the last of our quartet of blog posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens, and looks at those organisms from a

Nigel Chaffey · 28 Feb 2020

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III

Plant Cuttings

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III

This is the third of our quartet of posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. Asteroids, bad for dinosaurs, but good for cyanobacteria?

Nigel Chaffey · 27 Feb 2020

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part II

Plant Cuttings

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part II

Continuing our look at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. DOM, a double-edged sword … From a bad news point of view – bad for those

Nigel Chaffey · 26 Feb 2020

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part I

Plant Cuttings

Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part I

This is the first of what is hoped to be a series in which Mr P. Cuttings looks at a group of organisms and tries to

Nigel Chaffey · 25 Feb 2020

Tirpitz and the science of conflict ecology…

Plant Cuttings

Tirpitz and the science of conflict ecology…

It has been said that, in war, truth is the first casualty. As understandable as it may be to tell lies, create and perpetuate falsehoods and

Nigel Chaffey · 6 Aug 2019

Final course: ‘Coffee’… *

Plant Cuttings

Final course: ‘Coffee’… *

Or, rather, something to ponder as you finish your meal, maybe with a coffee. Whatever your food(s) of choice, you need the right equipment – e.

Nigel Chaffey · 26 Jul 2019

3rd course: Cereal and fern (and meat and fat…) **

Plant Cuttings

3rd course: Cereal and fern (and meat and fat…) **

Teeth are one source of evidence for food preferences [see previous course/post], but how can you be sure that what is found in the mouth

Nigel Chaffey · 25 Jul 2019

2nd course: Cereals, nettles and conifers (and fish…) ****

Plant Cuttings

2nd course: Cereals, nettles and conifers (and fish…) ****

Famously, humans will have a go at eating anything, which is why they’re considered to be omnivores, and they are therefore omnivorous *. However, information concerning

Nigel Chaffey · 24 Jul 2019

1st course: Seagrass ****

Plant Cuttings

1st course: Seagrass ****

What’s the one dietary fact everybody knows about sharks? Correct, they eat human beings – as graphically shown in the creature feature film sensation of 1975,

Nigel Chaffey · 23 Jul 2019

Food, glorious food! ***, ****

Plant Cuttings

Food, glorious food! ***, ****

Plants provide animals [and it is acknowledged that the following listing is somewhat human-biased] with many things: e.g. medicines; building materials; oxygen; useful chemicals

Nigel Chaffey · 22 Jul 2019

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