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Malaria: Prunes* to the rescue?
If you love someone, you give them flowers – Nigel Chaffey discovers there’s also good reason to take away flowers too from the things you hate.
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The roots of hydrotropism
Most plants are essentially rooted to a spot and immobile. While the factors they need for growth – e.g. sunlight, minerals, and water – are often present
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What! Plants can hear water???
The idea that plants can hear is controversial, but Nigel Chaffey finds the evidence keeps building.
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Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
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Volcanoes, unexpected spreaders of plant life
Inspiration for these plant-based blog items can come from the most unlikely of sources. This one in particular had a strange (and offbeat…) beginning. Whilst
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New PLANT journals (yay!)
Until this item, the last launch of a new plant journal I shared with you was for the august publication Nature Plants (although in its 3rd
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Snails living the high life
Nigel Chaffey finds a seasonal epiphyte with a head for heights.
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Skating on thin ice..?
It seems we can expect the Arctic to go green in future years – but that won’t be good news for species threatened by Climate Change.
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Botany really rocks!
For a plant life on the edge, like on a cliff face, should be peaceful. But Nigel Chaffey discovers one species has a real talent for annoying others.
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Hooray for the hydathode!
There’s more than one way for a pathogen to gain access to healthy leaf.
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Plants to the rescue of animals…
From tusks to teeth, plants can step in where animals break down.
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Fruit, true food for thought*
Some say fruit is connected to human intelligence, but is the idea a peach or completely bananas?