Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees.
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Dale Maylea
How a forgotten plant of Mexico’s tropical forests revolutionised life for women
A plant native to the tropical forests of Mexico was essential for the development of the contraceptive pill.
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…
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 &...
Nigel Chaffey
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 … chemistry(!). If you like...
Noble plant wins Nobel Prize!
We don’t usually have much cause to celebrate the Nobel Prizes in botany *, so let’s make the most of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. No, it’s not William Campbell and Satoshi Omura’s discoveries...
