Plant science has a central role to play in so many of the global challenges facing the world today, including our future food security, the conservation of biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services, improving global...
Kew Gardens works on ensuring our future as a species on this planet, but with funding cuts, we may be facing crisis talks about Kew’s continued security.
‘What would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years—or more?’. In other words, rather than being forced to look at what nature has produced after hundreds of millions of...
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to get more organised in 2012, here is advanced notice of two entries for your diary. First, the 18–19th of April (2012), the Inaugural Meeting of the UK Plant Science...
As we start another new year people often resolve to do things better than in the old one. And as we continue to face global cash-strapped and financially-straitened times, one resolution for an under-valued botanist...