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As the wine harvest reaches its peak in the Northern Hemisphere, what are the top three grapes? Interestingly, despite the volume of wine produced globally, and
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Botany has always been important but soon it might become likeable too, if a new film starring Matt Damon is a success.
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Dr Dafydd Wynn Parry was a pioneering figure in the field of phytolith research, publishing between the 1950s and 1980s.
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What is it that makes a plant science degree more attractive to students? Naomi Broad finds out with help from Stephen Rutherford, Andrew Shore and Hilary Rogers.
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I’m going to show my age here, but it is 30 years since I last built my own computer! What a change. The job then
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I write a few of these posts in advance. So this is being written the day before the General Election in the UK to come out
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Looking to speed up your research? The Lazy Scholar extension for Google Chrome is now even more helpful. I’ve mentioned Lazy Scholar before, but it’
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Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop
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The Journey of a Gene is a new website at UNL-Nebraska that teaches the basics of genetic engineering. There’s a combination of videos, some
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Annals of Botany had an editorial meeting recently one of the topics that came up was how can authors increase the readership of their paper? One
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There seem to be plenty of writing apps launching on the web at the moment. Most seem to be a replacement for Notepad or similar, with
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Botany is sexy. To prove it, Bernard and Cerinthe by Linda France has won the National Poetry Competition in the UK. The Guardian reports the poet