It’s been a feature of botany that ever since the language of Ancient Rome became the lingua franca of the educated classes, descriptions of new plants were published in Latin. Sadly, new rules emanating from the august...
Tag - Fungi
Nigel Chaffey
Plants: where to draw the line? (or, ICBN rules, OK!?)
For years we can be happy using a word and thinking we know what it means, and presuming that everybody else also understands it in the same way. Well, what about the word ‘plants’? I realise I’m probably addressing...
Genome jealousy
Image: Richard Wheeler/Wikimedia Commons. By way of a bit of an advertisement for the news site of another science organ – and to dispel any doubts that I am a complete techno-phobe – I’m happy to publicise information...
