Plant Cuttings
Botanical pot-pourri
Today we bring you a veritable feast of botanically inspired, environmentally friendly projects and ideas, which may just influence our future lives!
If ’10 000 BC’ is the answer, the question is…?
This article focuses on the possible advent of human agriculture occurring 23,000 years BP.
Plants and the diamond connection
Could your knowledge of botany be a gateway to undiscovered riches?
Question: when is a seed not a seed?
This article explores the future potential for DOI numbers to be used in identifying plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Plants flex their muscles… [or, Onion feeling the pinch…?]
Could onions peel back the layers of future developments in artificial muscle construction and soft robotics?
Has leukaemia met its Waterloo?
Has leukaemia met its match? Avocados shows promising cytotoxic activity against acute myeloid leukaemia.
Composites bounce back into favour…
Could members of the daisy family, dandelions and lettuces, hold the key to future rubber self-sufficiency?
Botanists on the move
We reveal a traveling merry-go-round and highlight the exploits of some of our fellow botanists!
Bearded bardic botanist, bruised but not bested?
Could the mysterious portrait of a bearded man within a botany herbal be none-other than the greatest English writer William Shakespeare?
Illuminating the mesocosm…
Constant light sources during the night have profound consequences on aphid populations in grassland ecosystems











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