Another kind of experiment that takes place out in the real world is when non-native species are introduced into new areas. Usually, and understandably, this causes a knee-jerk response that assumes this must be a bad...
Tag - invasive aliens
Nigel Chaffey
Malaria: Prunes* to the rescue?
If you love someone, you give them flowers - Nigel Chaffey discovers there's also good reason to take away flowers too from the things you hate.
Volcanoes, unexpected spreaders of plant life
Inspiration for these plant-based blog items can come from the most unlikely of sources. This one in particular had a strange (and offbeat…) beginning. Whilst researching an item about the use of drones in botany I...
‘Buckthorn Baggie’ bests buckthorn [Or, invasive aliens, we’ve got them covered, too!]
This week Nigel Chaffey finds a gentler way to kill a plant.
Scaring the crows…
One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that end scarecrows were invented by human beings, although their...
Botany? It’s all about app-lication…
Nowadays, it seems that anybody with a ‘smartphone’ can be a plant biologist. Well, not quite – it takes years of dedicated study, etc to be able to claim that right. But, with such technology to hand, almost any member...
It’s not what you know, but who you know!
Whilst humankind often debates the benefits – or otherwise – of an individual’s advancement based on patronage rather than merit, it is interesting to note that the plant world has no such scruples. Well, at least that...
