We don’t usually have much cause to celebrate the Nobel Prizes in botany *, so let’s make the most of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. No, it’s not William Campbell and Satoshi Omura’s discoveries...
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Nigel Chaffey
It’s all about technique
Techniques are at the heart of understanding in botany (and any science, whether it be an –ology or not *). For, as techniques advance so should our understanding – often to the point of over-turning the ‘truth’ that...
Old Year’s Honours in a fix?
As we all ponder the merits – or otherwise – of the UK’s monarch’s traditional – and annual! – New Year’s Honours’ List, let’s take a few minutes to pause and reflect on one of the most significant plant-based honours...
