Until this item, the last launch of a new plant journal I shared with you was for the august publication Nature Plants (although in its 3rd year of publication, it still awaits an Impact Factor. Will it get one before...
It’s a little naughty to consider these two elements together, I know, because this may unintentionally add to the confusion that often ensues in class when you ask students to tell you the full chemical names for...
Whilst members of the Plant Kingdom might dominate terrestrial biomes, non-Plant Kingdom members are the major photosynthetic organisms in aquatic habitats
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...
Echoing a plea from Ron Milo and Robert Last that computational methods [which is sort of ‘math(s)’…] should be used to gain deeper understanding of the fundamental principles that govern regulation of metabolic...
No, not messing with colours, but a reference to Silvia Vezzulli et al.’s work on Pinot blanc and Pinot gris wine grape cultivars. The team have discovered that the ‘white’ and ‘grey’ (which refer to their berry...
For too long, CAM [crassulacean acid metabolism, in which CO2 is fixed into an organic acid at night when stomata are open(!) in such plants and re-fixed via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham et al. Cycle – C3 photosynthesis...