What! That’s news?? Surely everybody knows that many plants are pollinated by bees? Hopefully, yes, but this item is not about that well-known plant-insect association. OK, but does it feature mammoths? No, but it does...
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Nigel Chaffey
Flying insects plummet
Where have all the flower-pollinating insects have gone?
Dale Maylea
Phytopathological future for plasma
The fight against pathogens in plants is moving to less familiar states of matter.
Good news for plant scientists who feel the need for speed
How fast does wheat need to be? You might look for taste and texture in a loaf, but why would anyone care about speed?
A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on - as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
Science, technology and innovation for Africa with the EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue stakeholder panel
What does it mean to work towards Sustainable Development? Pat Heslop-Harrison, editor of Annals of Botany, has been discussing the issue in Brussels with European stakeholders.
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Drone strikes botanical gold
Thanks to a new tool, botanists have the power to observe and operate in even more remote parts of the world than before.
Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
How a misunderstanding over diet created an ecocide
For years the tale of how the inhabitants of Easter Island depleted their soils and destroyed their ecosystem has been a cautionary tale for western civilisation. There's just one problem with this as a historical...
Alun Salt
The Secret Larder of Ancient America
The next big thing on your dinner plate could be plants that were first domesticated five thousand years ago then forgotten about for centuries.
Reducing P uptake by plants
Some things are hard to digest, but is an excess of phosphorus really one of them?
Black-grass: the farmer’s nemesis
Visit an arable farm in England, particularly in its central and Southern parts, and ask the farmer what their number one problem is on their farm. They will most likely tell you it is black-grass.
Laura Crook
Root system based limitations to agriculture
Improving root systems can be a step towards sustainable intensification in crop production. Using the contrasting wheat cropping systems of Australia and Denmark as examples, Thorup-Kristensen et al. find that...
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