It's not just humans that use plants. Spiders might be carnivorous, but they still have uses for crafty arachnids.
Tag - Bamboo
Nigel Chaffey
Are intelligent plants out of this world?
Semiosis by Sue Burke, 2018. Tor Books. First, two ‘spoiler alerts’ *. One, this book views plants in a much more enlightened way than those of a die-hard zoosupremacist persuasion will find unpalatable, and therefore...
Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
The global distribution of bamboos
Bamboos are one of the most economically important plant groups globally, but this worldwide trade creates risks of invasions. In a recent review published in AoB PLANTS, Canavan et al. identified 1662 species of...
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Dragons, coconuts and skyscrapers…
Botanists aren't always genetic engineers. This week Nigel Chaffey finds some have branched out into civil engineering.
![Image: David Raju, India Biodiversity Portal, http://indiabiodiversity.org. [http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/28371]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/02-Jan-SIZED-align-left.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
The 1001st use of bamboo?
A recent report by Kadaba Seshadri et al. documents use of bamboo as a breeding base for Indian frogs.
Tensile properties of bamboo responsible for its mechanical performance
A study of the mechanical properties of single fibres and tissue slices of stems of mature moso bamboo and latewood of spruce.
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