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Botanical Word of the Day

By annbot | Published: 16th of August 2011

Tony Foster who writes the Phytography blog has a nice idea going – botanical word of the day, building into an online glossary of botanical terms. If we weren’t such honest people here at AoB we’d be tempted to steal it   Tweet

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Hot Bot…

By NigelChaffey | Published: 11th of August 2011

Botany is officially ‘hot’ (or even ‘really cool’…), according to no less a publication than the FT (Financial Times) Magazine, where Clive Cookson lists ‘plants to feed the world’ amongst his ‘Science’s 10 hottest fields’. Musing on the projected global population increase from 7 billion later in 2011 to 9 billion mid-21st century, Cookson argues [...]

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Plants: where to draw the line? (or, ICBN rules, OK!?)

By NigelChaffey | Published: 9th of August 2011

For years we can be happy using a word and thinking we know what it means, and presuming that everybody else also understands it in the same way. Well, what about the word ‘plants’? I realise I’m probably addressing many botanists here so we should at least be able to agree on what a plant [...]

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PlantingScience.org

By annbot | Published: 8th of August 2011

PlantingScience is a learning and research resource, bringing together students, plant scientists, and teachers from across the nation. Students engage in hands-on plant investigations, working with peers and scientist mentors to build collaborations and to improve their understanding of science.

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On our Scoop It between August 1st and August 7th

By annbot | Published: 7th of August 2011

These are links from our Scoop It page between August 1st and August 7th: Crop breeding could ‘slash CO2 levels’ (The University of Manchester) Breeding crops with roots a metre deeper in the ground could lower atmospheric CO2 levels dramatically, with significant environmental benefits, according to research by a leading University of Manchester scientist. Writing [...]

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Inspirational plants

By NigelChaffey | Published: 4th of August 2011

Wikimedia Commons. Plants supply us – and other organisms – with many solid resources, e.g. food, medicines, shelter, drinks. Something that is more intangible – but no less important for that – is the inspiration plants provide in the field of biomimetics (biomimicry), ‘the examination of nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements to emulate [...]

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Bigging up botany

By NigelChaffey | Published: 2nd of August 2011

Scott Bauer, USDA ARS. It being such a rare TV event these days, I have to ensure that everybody is aware of the recent series on BBC4 (a digital channel from the UK’s British Broadcasting Corporation), Botany: A Blooming History. It was a three-parter presented by Timothy Walker, Director of the University of Oxford’s Botanic [...]

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The Eric Young Orchid Foundation

By annbot | Published: 1st of August 2011

In recent years (since I got the bug), my holidays have included orchid-hunting as a compulsory element! On a recent visit to Jersey, I came unstuck as by the end of a rather dry July, the wild orchid season on the island was pretty much over. Fortunately, the Eric Young Orchid Foundation was high on [...]

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On our Scoop It between July 27th and July 30th

By annbot | Published: 30th of July 2011

These are links from our Scoop It page between July 27th and July 30th: Insert Tongue Here – flower arrows guide fly tongues | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine The rare South African iris (Lapeirousia oreogena) has a ring of six stunning purple petals, atop an equally vivid straw-like stem. The petals have [...]

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On our Scoop It between July 17th and July 25th

By annbot | Published: 25th of July 2011

These are links from our Scoop It page between July 17th and July 25th: Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift? Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity. In a paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from CSIRO, [...]

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