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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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Paeonia lactiflora
Plant Cuttings

A tiny silver bullet for cut flowers?

by Nigel ChaffeyAugust 7, 2018August 7, 2018
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Vigna radiata
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Nano? NaYES!

Nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) may aid the use of organic Phosphorus in plants.

by Nigel ChaffeyOctober 4, 2016October 13, 2017
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Camellia sinensis
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The interconnectedness of plant studies

by Nigel ChaffeyApril 14, 2016May 6, 2016
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The Coffee Bearer
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Grounds for climate change optimism?

by Nigel ChaffeyDecember 15, 2015December 15, 2015
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Image: Evan Amos/Wikimedia Commons.
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Plants: nature’s sponge?

Can peppermint cure the ill-effects of second-hand smoking?

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 16, 2015July 16, 2015
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Life

Revving up photosynthesis with nanotechnology – take that, greenhouse effect!

What happens when you insert single-walled carbon nanotubes into the leaves of Arabidopsis?

by AJ CannApril 4, 2014April 1, 2014
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Image: Priester et al. 2012, PNAS.
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Nanoparticles may compromise crops

by Nigel ChaffeyJanuary 24, 2013January 28, 2013
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Alchemilla leaf with water droplets
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Plant names, alchemy and Alchemilla

by Editor Pat Heslop-HarrisonAugust 14, 2012August 17, 2012
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    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

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