Plant Cuttings
Want to save €320 billion a year?
N-Fix exploits the ability of a specific strain of N-fixing bacteria found in sugar-cane, that can colonise cells of all major crop plants.
Plant Cuttings
Reaching the masses: true botanical evangelism
I don’t know what the average enrolment on a first-year university plant science course is, but I can guess that it isn’t more
Plant Cuttings
Finally, a little filler…
Cattails – one of the most useful plants ever?
Plant Cuttings
Plants… chickens… children…
Are plants better at maths than humans?
Plant Cuttings
Can’t see the tissues for the tetrapyrroles?
How can you view plant tissues without slipping them a mickey?
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Blue + yellow = ?
What can satellites tell us about the earth’s chlorophyll density?
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Soil to roots to stem to atmosphere…
Studies show that fog water diffuses directly through leaf cuticles of Drimys brasiliensis and is transported through the xylem to below ground.
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Brachypodium is NOT Arabidopsis(!)
Interactions between plant hormones ethylene and auxin in roots of the monocot Brachypodium distachyon differ to those in roots of the dicot Arabidopsis.
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By the pricking of my thumbs…
Can cacti help us harness water from the air in hostile environments?
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The bibulous botanist
Plants – they’ll get you drunk! But they’ll also help cure your hangover!
Plant Cuttings
Giant organisms, giant genomes…
Humans are 98% junk! But a carnivorous plant is far more efficient – containing only 3% junk-DNA.
Plant Cuttings
Extend beyond the staples…
100 exotic plants ‘to try before you die’!