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Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…

Nigel Chaffey - November 20, 2019 2

School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?

Plant Cuttings

Saluting those who suffer for science

Nigel Chaffey - April 18, 2019 0

What is the most important part of a scientific paper? Arguably, it’s the Results section– although there are those who might propose that it’s...

News

Journal Impact Factors

AJ Cann - June 25, 2015 1

Impact factors for AoB journals are up.

Plant Cuttings

So that’s what bears do in the woods!

Nigel Chaffey - June 18, 2015 0

Through plant–animal interaction, black bears have been shown to help growth and reproduction of yellow rabbitbrush, by feeding on ants.

Plant Cuttings

Timeless inner beauty…

Nigel Chaffey - January 31, 2015 0

This study of the fossilised stem of a royal fern in Lahar deposits from Korsaröd in Scania includes cellular details that are ‘exquisitely preserved’.

Articles

One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany

annbot - January 14, 2015 0

By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.

Articles

Phylogeny and biogeography of wild roses

annbot - January 5, 2015 0

Roses are from Asia.

Plant Cuttings

One of a kind…

Nigel Chaffey - July 8, 2014 0

Rare and monotypic Amborella is probably the living – extant – flowering plant closest evolutionarily to the first true member of the angiosperm group.

Life

Spotlight on macronutrients (Part 2): Nitrogen, in a bit of a fix…

Nigel Chaffey - May 13, 2014 0

In this and my next few posts we conclude our look at essential plant macronutrients that started in some previous articles, and this time...

Articles

The fruit, the whole fruit, and everything about the fruit

annbot - April 22, 2014 0

This free review article focuses on two morphologically distinct and evolutionary distant fruits: the capsule of opium poppy, and the grain of cereals.

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