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From Emerald Planet to Eden with Prof. Beerling

Diagram of fungus types

Featured Plant Cuttings

How fungi oxygenated the Earth

The fine scale structure of a leaf featuring the major tissues; the upper and lower epithelia (and associated cuticles), the palisade and spongy mesophyll and the guard cells of the stoma.

Desert plants, got ’em covered…

This week Nigel turns his dry wit on desert plants, and finds a cuticle full of charm.

Image: Amédée Masclef, Atlas des Plantes de France, Paris: 1891.

Nature Plants: an appreciation [or, Now we are Three…*]

A review of ‘Nature Plants’, the latest offering from the Nature Publishing Group.

Image: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen. Gera-Untermhaus, 1897.

Because they’re not red(!)

Although red algae contain green chlorophyll, their red coloration is a result of large amounts of non-green pigments such as phycoerythrin.

Image: Becker & Marin (2009)

Proof of phytological principle

Professor Mark A. Wilson, The College of Wooster, Ohio/Wikimedia Commons.

Rocks versus Clocks

An algal cell with single helical chloroplast Image: Jasper Nance/Wikimedia Commons.

Where have all the plants come from?

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