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 &...
Tag - GM crops
Nigel Chaffey
Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
The science paper THEY TRIED TO SILENCE!
There’s a view that the anti-GM movement is like a mirror of the right-wing anti-science movement against climate change. It’s certainly plausible. Some anti-GM claims are barely reheated arguments from the...
Alun Salt
Stormy times ahead
Sir John Beddington (Chief Scientific adviser to the UK Government) opened the UK Plant Science Federation (UKPSF) conference (18th and 19th April, 2012, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK) with his ‘perfect storm...
GM crops – OMG?
Genetically-modifed crops have never found the acceptability in Europe that they have in other parts of the World, notably the USA. There lots of reasons for this, ranging from ill-infomed two-headed monster theories to...
AJ Cann
Orbis non Sufficit
A lot of light and not much heat came from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Study Week on ‘Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context of Development’ held in the Vatican earlier this year. The summary of...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison