How can you reconstruct the vegetation of deep time? One professor has turned to canvas and paint.
Tag - fossil plants
Hugh Dickinson
A long-lasting connection? Links between genome size and stomata size in plants
The variation in genome size between different plant species is enormous, with a variation of 2300-fold in flowering plants alone. Whilst variation in plant genome size is well recorded, it is debatable how much of this...
Liam Elliott
Moss, bringer of stability, and life…
This week Nigel Chaffey takes a closer look at mosses, the mighty colonisers of the land.
Nigel Chaffey
Caught in the act…
A revelation concerning amber-encased plant material suggests current sexual reproduction in angiosperms may have changed little in over 100 million years.
You can’t be best at everything…
There is a widespread belief that everything in/of/from/about America is bigger, better, faster, etc, than anything from elsewhere in the world. That is probably the best example of spin over substance ever foisted on...
