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Mention of cave-dwelling plants living in extremis [see Uncovering underground Botany] brings to mind the real extremophiles of planet Earth, known – unsurprisingly! – as extremophiles. Although
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What would you think if you saw that as a headline? You’d rightly be concerned. After all, you’d assume it was about human patients
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Hidden in the shadows, plants have survived catastrophic deforestation by taking refuge in caves.
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We’re not usually that big on plant genomes (“the complete set of genetic information in an organism”) in Cuttings items. We know what they are,
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We rightly ponder the problem of future food security – in which plants, plant science, and plant scientists (in the broadest sense of that term) have a
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News of two new journals. Although neither is strictly a botanical or plant science publication, they both cover plant science-relevant topics. First is The Cell
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Readers of this column will know that there is a problem with the inability – or unwillingness – of people generally to appreciate plants. This is the well-
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PAR is the acronym for Photosynthetically-Active Radiation, and refers to light with wavelengths of 400 – 700 nm, the so-called visible spectrum, from red to
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The cut flower industry – wherein stems of intact growing flowering plants are removed, and transported from their place of growth to a place of purchase by
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Although one shouldn’t, it is easy to accept that flowers (the defining feature of the angiosperms, the flowering plants) are ‘just there’ and get on
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Great things are possible when disciplines that may be studied separately and distinctly are brought together. For example, and famously, when botany, zoology, bacteriology, mycology, protistology,
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Part of the goal of Plant Cuttings items is to share news of botanical research with the wider plant-minded community, the better to advertise that