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When plants go to war!

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Plants go to war: A botanical history of World War II by Judith Sumner, 2019. McFarland & Co.
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What real people think about plants

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Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants by Roy Vickery, 2019. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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When broomcorn millet swept along the Silk Road…

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Fruit from the sands: The Silk Road origins of the food we eat by Robert N Spengler III, 2019. University of California...
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Does the Garden of Eden contain magic medicine trees?

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The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative by Robert Voeks 2018. University of Chicago Press. I suspect that most of us who’ve tried...
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Three kinds of algae? Blooming marvellous news!

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Bloom: From food to fuel, the epic story of how algae can save our world by Ruth Kassinger 2019. Elliott & Thompson. As a Botanist,...
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Primroses and primulas aplenty

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Primrose by Elizabeth Lawson, 2019. Reaktion Books Ltd. To the uninitiated, it may seem rather improbable that anybody can write 288 pages about the primrose....
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Bigging-up Bill’s botany

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Mr Guilfoyle’s Shakespearian Botany, Edited by Diana E Hill and Edmée Cudmore, 2018. The Miegunyah Press. It is acknowledged that English wordsmith William Shakespeare (Bill…)...
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Roses (hip-hip hooray!)

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Rose by Catherine Horwood 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Apparently, the rose is the world’s favourite flower. It’s not mine. I therefore seem to find myself...
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Bring on the birch!

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Birch by Anna Lewington 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. “Miserable, naked, hungry”. These three little words are used by the Phytophactor (the ‘nom de blog’ of Illinois...
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We want yew!

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The immortal yew by Tony Hall, 2018. Kew Publishing. Is the yew actually immortal? Certainly, trees can live for many thousands of years – e.g....
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Plasticity to drought and ecotypic differentiation in populations of a crop wild relative

Growth & Development William Salter - 0
Plant functional traits often vary across space, particularly when species encounter contrasting environmental conditions throughout their range. Such phenotypic variation is determined...
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Botanists Pull Apart the Genes of Bananas to See How They Came Together

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
Banana genes reveal how they may have passed through other hybrid stages.
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Sympatric moss populations can form true hybrid zones

Close Encounters Erin Zimmerman - 0
Hybridization between species has not been considered an important factor in the evolution of mosses. The moss life cycle has led many...
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A key protein may help trigger germination in Arabidopsis seeds

Cells, Genes & Molecules Alex Assiry - 0
Seed germination is a critical step in the life cycle of flowering plants. Since seeds contain limited reserves, seed germination has to...
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