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Prize-winning banana research
Kiyoshi Mabuchi et al. won an award at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in 2014, for their work investigating ‘why bananas are slippery’.
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Timeless inner beauty…
This study of the fossilised stem of a royal fern in Lahar deposits from Korsaröd in Scania includes cellular details that are ‘exquisitely preserved’.
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Better together…
A study shows coral polyps actively generate micro-currents and eddies to promote nutrient inflow and exchange of materials using externally located cilia.
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Thirsty? Then suck on a stone!
Whilst it is claimed that only the taxman can get blood out of a stone, it seems that some plants can abstract water from stone-like
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Classical texts re-imagined/re-imaged…
Do you remember the good old days when students read for a degree? Well, I don’t know how much proper reading they do these days
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Brilliant bird-brained bryophyte diaspore diaspora…
There is an ancient and time-honoured association – maybe co-evolution even – between birds and flowering plants, e.g. in respect of pollination and dispersal of
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For they are jolly good fellows
We’d like to congratulation two recently appointed plant-biological Fellows of the Royal Society: Professor Liam Dolan FRS and Professor David Beerling FRS.
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Bloody royal French gourd debunked
One of the most unusual plant-based items that has come to my notice recently is this rather ‘quirky’ item that sheds a forensic botany light
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Sponsor a genome…?
Crowdfunding is being used to help sequence the genome of Azolla filiculoides by a team fromProfessor Kathleen Pryer’s Seed-Free Vascular Plants laboratory.
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Clear way ahead for leaf research
Scientific Data: an open-access, online-only journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, to help publish, discover & reuse research data.
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M people and the ‘B’ word…
No, this is not an item about M People, an ‘English house music band which formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s’
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New plant journal
It just had to happen, but we didn’t know it would take nearly 150 years to come to fruition. And fruition is an apt word