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Food that really might taste like sawdust
A common complaint of food, for many reasons, is that it ‘tastes like sawdust’. Although that description is subjective – the food doesn’t contain sawdust even
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Plant life at the temperature limit?
It’s not just microbes that can live under extreme conditions. Some plants thrive in situations many other life forms simply could not tolerate.
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Seed dispersal, the Ecuadorian dimension…
Rather belatedly in our look at animals and seed dispersal, we have our Darwin connection (after all, what biological item would be complete without mention of
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Cocoa, chimpanzees, and the restorative value of gorilla dung…
Having reached mammals in our meanderings, and the human involvement in global plant dispersal (admirably explored in Michael Pollan’s book The Botany of Desire) notwithstanding,
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From cocks and hens * to cockroaches (and elephants…)
Yasuhiro Uehara and Naoto Sugiura describe a new mutualistic relationship between a cockroach and Monotropastrum humile (Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 185: 113–118, 2017;
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Plant survival, on a wing and a prayer…*
As organisms that are mainly fixed in one place, plants have a problem if they are to extend their range and spread to new areas by
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Invasive aliens, not always doom-and-gloom?
Another kind of experiment that takes place out in the real world is when non-native species are introduced into new areas. Usually, and understandably, this
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Experiments versus real-world studies
How close are experiments to nature? The answer isn’t clean cut, partly because nature is messy.
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A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on – as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
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The 3 Ps of plant science publishing
Mr Cuttings hears of a new journal launched this summer, and is appropriately excited.
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Seed dispersal that’s hard to swallow
The argan tree doesn’t have to be annoying to really get your goat.
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Drone strikes botanical gold
Thanks to a new tool, botanists have the power to observe and operate in even more remote parts of the world than before.