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Struggling to make a smelly onion or an unripe pepper exciting for your biology students? Grab a simple optical microscope and transform boredom into curiosity! You will discover the vibrant colour palette of plant pigments hidden in food crops we eat every day.
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Urban gardeners with tiny plots lead the way in creating diverse flower gardens that support pollinators.
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What I Did on My Holidays.
Plants & People
What do you do when large parts of internet infrastructure are vandalised? Here’s how we’re planning to work around them.
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Scientists and paramotor experts come together with an eco-friendly method to explore remote desert plants while protecting fragile environments from vehicle damage.
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New research reveals college students’ mental pictures of plants are surprisingly basic, similar to those of third-grade children.
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New evidence reveals sweet potato was a key crop for Aotearoa / New Zealand’s first farmers 700 years ago.
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Despite their modest size, private gardens pack a powerful punch against climate change when working together, reveals a new study of 2.4 million Flemish gardens.
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In the 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting, botanists from around the world commit to working together to find Earth’s unknown plants and fungi before they disappear.
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Plant sellers and buyers struggle to verify if rare carnivorous plants were legally collected from the wild.
Plants & People
Alongside grinning pumpkins and creepy skeletons, the botanical world brings its own spine-tingling magic to Halloween. Let’s uncover the secrets of some fascinating plants with hidden surprises—like those that produce blood-red juices.
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Neat and tidy yard preferences make homeowners reluctant to plant wildflowers that could help save bees and butterflies.