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Blooming, brilliant botanical miracles
Botanical Miracles: Chemistry of Plants That Changed the World. Raymond Cooper, Jeffrey John Deakin. CRC Press, 2016. Warning: this book [hereafter styled as Miraculous Botanicals] contains
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The future’s bright, the future’s blue (and quite green…)
Springer Handbook of Marine Biotechnology. Edited by Se-Kwon Kim. Springer, 2015. Why is a botanist reviewing a handbook on marine biotechnology? For the same reason
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Shedding light on plant – and animal – biology…
Photobiology [the science of light and life], 3rd Edition. Edited by Lars Olaf Björn. Springer, 2015. As botanists (for such I assume most of this blog
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A sensuous botanical delight
The Botanical Treasury. Christopher Mills. University of Chicago Press, 2016. What’s better than a glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales? A glorious book
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Bigging-up [plant] microtechniques
Plant Microtechniques and Protocols Edited by Edward Yeung, Claudio Stasolla, Michael Sumner and Bing Huang. Springer, 2015. As one who has wrestled with published protocols to
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Tracing the roots – stems, leaves, fruits… – of modern botany
Ancient Botany. Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin. Routledge, 2016. What do you get if you combine the academic interests of a marine phycologist with those of
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Plant Behavior and Intelligence by Anthony Trewavas (Review)
What do we mean by intelligent? Could we always recognise intelligence if it was in front of us? One author thinks we might have been overlooking one intelligent group of beings.
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The Beast is released…
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition. Edited by Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem and Russell L. Jones. Wiley, 2015. Buchanan et al.’s 2nd
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Hearing you loud and clear…
Plant Sensing & Communication. Richard Karban. University of Chicago Press, 2015 It is said that we have two ears and one mouth because we should listen
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Human mind-control by plants
Kennedy’s Plants and the human brain is not only a work of considerable erudition and obvious scholarship, it is also a true labour of love.
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80 shades of plants…
Around the world in 80 plants. Stephen Barstow. 2014. Permanent Publications I normally have to request copies of books to review, but for this one I
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Weed anatomy in the spotlight
Weed Anatomy is a comprehensive guide to the anatomy of weeds, featuring detailed illustrations and descriptions of 56 taxa. The book is a valuable resource for educators and students, showcasing the art and science of plant structure through hand-sectioning techniques.