Plant Cuttings
Gardeners 1: Snails 0…
We at Cuttings HQ hate waste. So, when, and rather belatedly, spring-cleaning the Cuttings’ archives in August 2016, I unearthed a news item penned for
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Lichens now 50% bigger…
One of the biggest plant-related stories of recent times concerns one of the smallest entities and makes the point that you shouldn’t just look
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Tunicated corpuscle theory
You can’t escape your heritage; we all go through life with an assortment of ‘baggage’ that betrays our origins, whether it’s our accent, cultural
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What colour is Greenland?
The changing colour of Greenland could have consequences for the rest of the planet.
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Botany at Oxford University is not 400 years old!
The first – and so far only – example of a root fossilized during active growth, which has preserved the cellular organization of the meristem
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Darwin connection IV [Or, nanotech item No. 2]
An investigation into the molecular basis of the adhesive that allows Hedera helix to cling to vertical structures shows that the nanoparticles identified in the adhesive are predominantly composed of arabinogalactan proteins.
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Nano? NaYES!
Nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) may aid the use of organic Phosphorus in plants.
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Promoting the planet’s plants-and-people future [Or, Probably the best jobs in British Botany…]
We’re not in the habit of posting job advertisements in this column – especially when the application deadlines will have long passed when this collection is
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Permanently photo-postponed pollination (possibly…)
In a world where we might think that bees do all of the plant pollinating, we shouldn’t discount ‘the importance of moths as pollinators for a diverse range of plant species in ecosystems worldwide and, hence, their role in ecosystem functioning’.
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Fillyphyllophilia…
Women in the U.S. who live in homes surrounded by more vegetation appear to have significantly lower mortality rates than those who live in areas with less vegetation, according to a new study
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Biomineralised barbed botanics bite back!
They almost literally bite. Glochidiate trichomes in some species of Loasa contain nanocrystalline apatite-cellulose composite, similar to the material found in teeth.
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369,400…and counting(!)
Being an avid supporter of the importance of plants (I do hope that’s come over quite strongly in my various blog items..?), I’m always