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Evernote on offer for a limited time
There’s an odd special offer on Evernote for a limited time. You can buy 15 months of the Premium service for $29. The usual price
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Gatsby Plant Science – Undergraduate Studentships
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Why are U.S. salt marshes falling apart?
Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern seaboard and other highly developed coastlines, without anyone fully
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Swings and Roundabouts and Biofuel
The European Commission says clearing land in order to plant biofuel crops can often cancel out the environmental benefits of biofuel. In some cases forests are
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Wicked Plants
Dr Caitlin Kight recently broadcast a programme on SourceFM about the nastier side of plants. You can view the in-studio video recording here or on her YouTube channel.
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Superhero Barley
The International Atomic Energy Authority have released some new videos to their YouTube channel that may interest botanists. The most relevant video is The Birth of
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Virtually Visit the 2012 Plant Sciences Symposium at UW-Madison
In terms of accessibility, the graduate students at UW-Madison look to beat a few major conferences this year with live streaming of their Plant Sciences
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Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery
This video from a recent Science Friday finds a cucumber doing something truly bizarre. What happens when you grab a coiled cucumber tendril and pull it?
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Gentamicin and special-purpose antibiotics
Gentamicin is an unusual antiobiotic with two properties that make it particularly useful in plant cell culture: it is autoclavable so is added to media before
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Taylor Lockwood, mushrooms and the holey veil: DVD video review
We bought a television two years ago. Sadly, despite the 723 channels available, my worst suspicions about quality have been confirmed: there is almost nothing I
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Plant names, alchemy and Alchemilla
Plant names often have an interesting history behind them: I came across Alchemilla while looking up a plant I photographed at the weekend. Thinking about the
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August Image: Apple Stigma
This month the inset cover image shows a detail of the stigma of a flower of apple, Malus × domestica. The acquisition of stigmatic receptivity is concomitant with secretion of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs, strained green) into the intercellular spaces between cell walls (blue).