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Tongue-tied? Let the flowers do the talking!
Traditionally, 14th February – Saint Valentine’s Day – is the day when lovers bear their souls and declare their love for one another, often accompanied by gifts
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When physics meets botany…
This column is always fascinated by the way new insights arise when different disciplines are brought together to tackle an ostensibly botanical problem. So, too, is
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Nicotine: an ancient addiction?
It must be terribly depressing if you don’t have plants in your life to give you purpose and a reason to get up in the
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Science teaching resource
Relatively new to me – so maybe new to some of my devoted legion of readers (many of whom may be involved in teaching science, plant or
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Rocking the photosynthetic cradle…
I’m sure that many of us in our teaching have demonstrated the transfer of light energy between adjacent accessory pigment molecules during the light-dependent
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Multi-purpose leaves!
Surely, it is a truth universally acknowledged is that leaves are green?
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Answer: Not Lamarck(!)
OK, that’s the answer, what was the question? Who invented the dichotomous key for identification? Well, as anybody who has taught students about keys and
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Making plants work harder [or, Vorsprung durch Botanik]
Not content with just being grateful for all of the marvellous things that plants do and provide, we humans always seem to want them to do
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Manioc marriage mystery unearthed
Echoing Forrest Gump’s famous box of chocolates quote (number 40 in the American Film Institute’s Top 100 movie quotes), you never really know what
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Embrace Wikipedia!(?)
Now that’s probably something you thought you would never hear an academic say. Well, let’s qualify that outrageous statement. Acknowledging that entries on Wikipedia
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Prof. on the box
After his phytophyllic antics were revealed to the world last year, serial seriously scientific stuntsman Iain Stewart – our original ‘Prof. in a box’ – has done it
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CSI Evidential Botanicals, Episode 3: CSI Raptors
Going back almost as far you can with higher plants, we now have a remarkable use of plant-derived exudates that represents the phytopalaentological equivalent of