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Tag: nutrition

Growth & Development

Plants Don’t Want Their Children to Starve

There’s more to seed survival than just seed mass.

by Carlos A. Ordóñez-ParraMarch 24, 2022March 28, 2022
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Plant Cuttings

Final course: ‘Coffee’… *

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 26, 2019July 27, 2019
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Plant Cuttings

3rd course: Cereal and fern (and meat and fat…) **

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 25, 2019July 27, 2019
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Plant Cuttings

2nd course: Cereals, nettles and conifers (and fish…) ****

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 24, 2019July 27, 2019
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Plant Cuttings

1st course: Seagrass ****

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 23, 2019July 27, 2019
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Plant Cuttings

Food, glorious food! ***, ****

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 22, 2019July 27, 2019
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Many carrots
Plant Cuttings

More reasons to like plants

How helpful is healthy eating advice, if you don’t have the money for making choices?

by Nigel ChaffeyJune 6, 2017June 6, 2017
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The trap of a Venus fly trap, showing trigger hairs.
Plant Cuttings

Carnivory, more than meets the eye…

No morsel of the victim is wasted when a plant traps its prey.

by Nigel ChaffeyMay 17, 2017May 17, 2017
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Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Don’t ignore the ‘orphans’!

The FAO has launched a ‘traditional crop of the month’ site to generate more appreciation of the nutritional – and often medical – benefits of food plants.

by Nigel ChaffeyJuly 7, 2015June 28, 2015
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Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Spotlight on macronutrients (…and finally): Magnesium and a food fight…

by Nigel ChaffeyJune 3, 2014June 3, 2014
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Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Spotlight on macronutrients: Touchy-feely calcium…

Calcium (Ca) acts – amongst other things! – as a so-called ‘second messenger’, and participates in many processes of plant growth and development.

by Nigel ChaffeyMay 27, 2014May 28, 2014
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Something to Chew On Cover
Life

Something to Chew On by Mike Gibney

by Alun SaltFebruary 13, 2013February 13, 2013
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Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Current research in sweet potato…

by Nigel ChaffeyJanuary 29, 2013January 29, 2013
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Image: Petr Dlouhý, Wikimedia Commons.
Plant Cuttings

Taming the carnivore

by Nigel ChaffeyOctober 30, 2012October 22, 2012
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