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Where in the epidermis would you find chloroplasts?
There are several answers to this question. I expect all of you to say guard cells. Those of you who’ve read the previous item about
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More reasons to like plants
How helpful is healthy eating advice, if you don’t have the money for making choices?
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Where do Chloroplasts go to die?
Even plants find it healthy to eat their greens.
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Reducing P uptake by plants
Some things are hard to digest, but is an excess of phosphorus really one of them?
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Carnivory, more than meets the eye…
No morsel of the victim is wasted when a plant traps its prey.
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New forms of: Carbon, water and photosynthesis
Somewhat disappointingly, this ‘three for the price of one’ item is not about plants – neither exclusively nor even specifically. However, since it deals with matters that
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When is a fibre not a fibre?
Answer: When it is ‘resistant starch’.
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Dragons, coconuts and skyscrapers…
Botanists aren’t always genetic engineers. This week Nigel Chaffey finds some have branched out into civil engineering.
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Can kelp help halt human hubris?
If we hope kelp is going to mitigate climate change, then we might need to think again about over-fishing and kelp harvesting.
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Iridoplasts, out of the shadows at last
Why can you find colourful plants, where they’re hardest to see? Iridoplasts, an overlooked plastid, improve photosynthesis and look great while doing it.
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Gone but not forgotten…
Looking back to the annus horribilis that was 2016 we might reflect on the loss of so many icons of the world of music, e.g.
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Super silk and mine-detectors
Modern materials get solve long-standing problems, when they get a helping hand from plants.