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Image: From Chandler B. Beach (ed), The New Student’s Reference Work, for teachers, students and families, F. E. Compton and Company, Chigaco, 1941.

Hair today; iHair tomorrow…

At the subterranean interface between ‘plant’ and ‘non-plant’ few structures play a more important role than root hairs – tiny, closed-ended tubular projections from single cells in the root’s epidermis. Not only do...

Image: ‘Crabtree watching the Transit of Venus A.D. 1639’ by Ford Madox Brown; a mural at the Town Hall of Manchester, UK.

Transient VENUS

This year’s transit of Venus reminds me – albeit belatedly – to applaud the hard-working botanists of the Universities of Nottingham (UK), Ghent (Belgium), Leeds (UK) and Lyon (France) who have been exploring a more...