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dubius research that blows you away
Elegant research should always be applauded (or publicised, which is what I’m doing here!). And they don’t come more elegant than David Greene and
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Darwin’s doodles digitised
Darwin’s doodles digitised Were you told not to ‘scribble’ in books as a child? I was. And I obeyed. But as I get older and
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Convoluted carbon cycle collection
Of all the biogeochemical cycles that help to sustain life on Earth, the carbon cycle is arguably the most important (although not necessarily the most straightforward!
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Hot Bot…
Botany is officially ‘hot’ (or even ‘really cool’…), according to no less a publication than the FT (Financial Times) Magazine, where Clive Cookson lists ‘plants to
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Plants: where to draw the line? (or, ICBN rules, OK!?)
For years we can be happy using a word and thinking we know what it means, and presuming that everybody else also understands it in the
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Inspirational plants
Wikimedia Commons. Plants supply us – and other organisms – with many solid resources, e.g. food, medicines, shelter, drinks. Something that is more intangible – but no less
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…this month’s most tenuous plant link?
Warning for the zoophobic: this item is about Caenorhabditis elegans – a free-living, transparent nematode {‘roundworm’ –sometimes known as ‘the Arabidopsis of animal biology’ [that’s
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Bigging up botany
Scott Bauer, USDA ARS. It being such a rare TV event these days, I have to ensure that everybody is aware of the recent series on
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And the winner is…
… well, it’s not a plant! And how predictable! The Top 10 new species of 2010 includes no plants. However, before all readers of this column
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iPhone 4 ID? OMG!
If you thought that acquiring the expertise to identify plants took many years of application, you’d be wrong. Now – apparently – it takes only one application
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Tiers for souvenirs?
News of a new-ish plant science journal now. The Open Access online Frontiers in Plant Science, which ‘welcomes outstanding contributions in any field of plant
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Date sex – XY marks the spot
Dates, the sticky, sweet fruits of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), are the product of sexual reproduction in that plant and borne on the female plants