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CSI Evidential Botanicals, Episode 2: CSI Amphorae
Taking the whole evidence-gathering issue back many hundreds of years now to an age before cookery books (cookery, a TV-obsession in the UK…). Amongst
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Forensic botany collection
I don’t know what the rest of the world’s TV is like but the USA and the UK– and Denmark– seem obsessed with crime
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Phytophoenixism
In biology, matters are rarely either good or bad; oftentimes they may be both at once (albeit usually for different organisms). Take for instance hydrogen cyanide,
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Dates for your diary
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to get more organised in 2012, here is advanced notice of two entries for your diary. First,
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Innovate to accumulate!
As we start another new year people often resolve to do things better than in the old one. And as we continue to face global cash-
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A Christmas Trilogy, Part 3: …and a peak at Christmas still to come?
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in the Cuttings’ household without Brussels sprouts (which are traditionally eaten – usually reluctantly – on the 25th of December in the UK
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A Christmas Trilogy, Part 2: From Christmas Past to Christmas present…
Still wondering what to get the phytologist who has everything? Well, for botanists on the move (you know the ones, always jetting off to conferences and
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A Christmas Trilogy, Part 1
In lieu of the traditional collection of items in a monthly issue of the Annals of Botany, Mr P. Cuttings presents the following selection for your
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Chips and the Washington Convention
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora – apparently, also known as the Washington Convention) is a treaty whose aim
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The good side to UV
David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is generally regarded to be deleterious to biological systems; however – like many potentially bad things – in small
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The real butterfly effect
In Chaos Theory, the butterfly effect refers to the notion that a small change at one place can result in much larger differences to a later
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Kingdom-blurring discovery
This column is always interested in cross-Kingdom co-operation (especially if it involves plants!), but some ‘associations’ go too far, and often in weirdly and