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Plants – and plant products – promoting global trade

by Nigel ChaffeyJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022
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You can’t beat a good book

by Nigel ChaffeyApril 25, 2022April 25, 2022
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This plant book is amazing

A book that considers not only how plants have nourished the body, but also the soul.

by Nigel ChaffeyJanuary 19, 2022January 20, 2022
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Plants & People

Sketch by Goethe may be first depiction of intraspecific trait variation

Though the phenomenon was known in Goethe’s time, research didn’t start in earnest for another century.

by Erin ZimmermanMay 19, 2020May 19, 2020
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Featured Plants & People

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 & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?

by Nigel ChaffeyNovember 20, 2019
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One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany

By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.

by annbotJanuary 14, 2015January 9, 2015
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Life

Happy Pumpkin Day to all our American Readers!

by AJ CannNovember 22, 2012November 22, 2012
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Life

In praise of Urtica dioica

by AJ CannApril 10, 2012April 10, 2012
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Heart-shaped potato
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Go to work on a potato

by Alun SaltMarch 1, 2012March 1, 2012
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Cucumbers and melons in medieval manuscripts
Life

The fashionably late arrival of cucumbers in Europe #bad11

by Alun SaltOctober 16, 2011October 10, 2011
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Robin Ince and Brian Cox in the Infinite Monkey Cage
Life

The origin of modern Botany and the Infinite Monkey Cage

by Alun SaltNovember 23, 2010November 23, 2010
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  1. Research associate (f/m/d) PostDoc Biology, Bioinformatics – Open Source Biology & Genetics Interest Group on Research associate (f/m/d) PostDoc Biology, BioinformaticsJanuary 30, 2023

    […] Read more here: Source link […]

  2. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

  3. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  4. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    Hello Patrick, Thank you for taking th etim eto comment on this item. The source for 'catherine' that's stated in…

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