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Ecologists thought the largest trees would be most vulnerable to drought. The reality is more complex, with some forest giants unexpectedly resilient.
Hummingbirds are responsible for some of the fastest evolution in the plant kingdom.
The rules for plants can be different in water.
Plants are more fascinating than you might imagine.
Deserts seem unforgiving. However, the fragile flowers of cacti are evolving quickly.
What you probably don’t know about the humble daisy.
Evolution has created plants with the power to kill and heal.
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.
A researcher explains the benefits of a relatively new farming practice called paludiculture.
Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting environmental pressures.
Psychedelic plants and fungi grow all over the planet.
How the threatened monkey-face orchids could become icons for plant conservation.
A new study created a detailed map of how plants respond to cues in the world around them.
The author, an obsessive plant hunter, has created a botanical resource for Britain like no other.
Plant roots don’t just take from soil; they shape it.
Roses don’t look beautiful by accident - humans and nature have shaped them.
Most fungi that partner with plants are known only from trace DNA sequences left in soil.
Plants seem to know when the longest day of the year is.
Here’s why those little yellow flowers are everywhere you look.
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Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
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Glasstone Research Fellow, Plant Science, University of Oxford
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Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University
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Professor in Plant-Soil Processes, University of Sheffield
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Emeritus Fellow in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, University of Edinburgh
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Research fellow, University of Southampton
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Senior Research Associate in Entomology, Lancaster University
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Post-Doctoral researcher, University of Reading
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Investigadora posdoctoral Beatriu de Pinos en Malherbologia, Universitat de Lleida
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Professor of Crop Science, University of Cambridge
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PhD student in Paleobiology, University of Bristol
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PhD candidate in Biology, Lund University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham