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Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
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Time for some carbs, now
Carbohydrates and plants means more than just sucrose, starch and cellulose.
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PDL stops the rot
Who’d have thought it? juice from the fruit of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera inhibits corrosion of aluminium alloy in salt water.
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Chlorophyllous catwalk… (Or, Hemerocallis, the ‘lily’ whose day has come?)
What have Arabidopsis thaliana, Lotus japonicus, Zea mays, Lemna gibba and Hemerocallis got in common? They’re all model plants.
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The sociable botanist
An advert seen in my local virtual newspaper, Green Times Perennial, ‘Botanist, GSOH, out-going personality, WLTM other like-minded individuals for walks and talks on
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Chocolate AND red wine!(!)
Plants and plant products might not necessarily bring you wealth, but they can bring health, and enjoyment. (And, if you are a purveyor of plant-based
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Yes, but WHY?
On a related ‘down-under’ theme to my previous posting re scarecrows(!), I pose this question: Just because we can, does that mean we should? After
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Scaring the crows…
One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that
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Women on top…
As debates continue over gender-bias in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects and careers for women (e.g. Karen Purcell), it is timely to
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Hair today; iHair tomorrow…
At the subterranean interface between ‘plant’ and ‘non-plant’ few structures play a more important role than root hairs – tiny, closed-ended tubular projections from single
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Phytofoodophylogeny…
Working hard on your behalf, one of my many ‘spies’ has tipped me off about a ‘super blog with phylogenies of food plants and lots of
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New plants for a dimmer future?
As anyone who merely glances at the titles of scientific articles will tell you, when ‘new species’ and ‘China’ are seen together it is usually a