Plant Cuttings
Plant people are the happiest people!
I’m happy(!) to be able to non-exclusively reveal to you that gardeners and florists (i.e. people who work with plants!) are officially the
Plant Cuttings
Old Year’s Honours in a fix?
As we all ponder the merits – or otherwise – of the UK’s monarch’s traditional – and annual! – New Year’s Honours’ List, let’s take a
Plant Cuttings
Turing’s centenial flowers
When flowers are mentioned in the context of Alan Turing (OBE, FRS, maths genius, tortured soul, ‘an enigma inside a colossus’, and one of the main
Plant Cuttings
Duke botanists go gaga over ferns
Yes, I know that ‘everyone and their dog’ has probably written something about this item, but sometimes you’ve just got to go with the flow.
Plant Cuttings
A bit of warmth and we all go bananas!?
In a warming world, could bananas really replace potatoes?
Plant Cuttings
Pollia pigmentation pooh-poohed
Despite appearances – and often therefore assumptions – to the contrary, the intense blue-colour of the fruit of Pollia condensata is not due to pigment(s). Instead,
Plant Cuttings
Problems with models?
Faced with the breathtaking diversity of living things, compromises are made and research effort concentrated in a few selected species – so-called ‘model organisms’ – in the
Plant Cuttings
Funds flood into plant water use research
For too long, CAM [crassulacean acid metabolism, in which CO2 is fixed into an organic acid at night when stomata are open(!) in such plants and
Plant Cuttings
Sports turf below PAR
Of all the incredible diversity of plants on this planet, arguably the grass family (the Poaceae) is one of the greatest of Nature’s gifts to
Plant Cuttings
Potential new fertiliser
This month’s winner in the ‘so simple it’s positively brilliant (but why did nobody think of it before?)’ category is Damar López-Arredondo and
Plant Cuttings
Potential new herbicide
The contentious matter of plant GM (genetic manipulation – which always sounds more menacing and mankind-meddling-with-nature than GE, genetic engineering, or the other GM
Plant Cuttings
Tentacular spectacular
All plants are fascinating, but some are more fascinating than others (to misquote George Orwell, English novelist and journalist). And what is more fascinating than a