Question: when is a seed not a seed?
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Sport and drugs…
We explore some sporting dilemmas encroaching on botanical issues.
Plants flex their muscles… [or, Onion feeling the pinch…?]
Could onions peel back the layers of future developments in artificial muscle construction and soft robotics?
Has leukaemia met its Waterloo?
Has leukaemia met its match? Avocados shows promising cytotoxic activity against acute myeloid leukaemia.
Composites bounce back into favour…
Could members of the daisy family, dandelions and lettuces, hold the key to future rubber self-sufficiency?
Botanists on the move
We reveal a traveling merry-go-round and highlight the exploits of some of our fellow botanists!
Bearded bardic botanist, bruised but not bested?
Could the mysterious portrait of a bearded man within a botany herbal be none-other than the greatest English writer William Shakespeare?
Illuminating the mesocosm…
Constant light sources during the night have profound consequences on aphid populations in grassland ecosystems
Cures: Ancient and Modern…
Ancient medical text books may hold the key to fighting many modern diseases.
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