Bloom: From food to fuel, the epic story of how algae can save our world by Ruth Kassinger 2019. Elliott & Thompson. As a Botanist, especially one who has taught an undergraduate module on marine biology for over 12...
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Nigel Chaffey
A rare orchid makes a return to its home range
The plant that was almost loved to death returns to its former partner.
Alun Salt
How fungi oxygenated the Earth
Now that’s an eye-catching headline, isn’t it? The thought of mushrooms and toadstools – that famously don’t produce oxygen, unlike green plants with their oxygenic photosynthesis – adding oxygen to the planet’s...
Brand new 3.7 billion years old stromatolites
One of the most ancient forms of life on the planet might be more common than we thought.
Moss, bringer of stability, and life…
This week Nigel Chaffey takes a closer look at mosses, the mighty colonisers of the land.
Redox changes, dormancy breaking and ageing of seeds
Loss of seed viability has been associated with deteriorative processes that are partly caused by oxidative damage. The breaking of dormancy, a seed trait that prevents germination in unfavourable seasons, has also been...
botanyone
Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
Prof. on the box
After his phytophyllic antics were revealed to the world last year, serial seriously scientific stuntsman Iain Stewart – our original ‘Prof. in a box’ – has done it again. Not content to use contemporaneously generated...
Prof. in a box
In the good old days of the late 18th Century in England it was considered the height of scientific enquiry for a polymath cleric to put a mouse in a bell jar to demonstrate that animals could be sustained by the...
