Ferns came along more than 200 million years before the dinosaurs walked the Earth. They were food for plant-eating dinosaurs and they’re really great survivors. Heather, age 8, wants to know more.
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If you want to live on Mars, you’re going to need to grow food. Seeds are naturally equipped to handle challenging Earth environments, but how well can they survive what they’ll encounter off-planet?
Inserting a random DNA mishmash into a plant or bacterium directs it to make a novel protein. Sifting through the resulting molecules, researchers may find ones have medical or agricultural uses.
The caterpillar and the butterfly: two forms, a single individual? A biologist and a philosopher explore this paradox.
Plants produce toxic fruit for everything from deterring fungi to causing constipation.
Australia’s herbaria are a priceless repository, holding around 8 million samples that map historical and current distributions of native and introduced plant species in Australia.
American ginseng, a slow-growing native plant long used in traditional medicine, was abundant in colonial times. Now illegal harvesting and other stresses are pushing it close to extinction.
Pollen is all around us, is extremely durable and can provide clues about where someone’s been. A new genetic technique will make it easier to use pollen evidence in criminal investigations.
When botany and linguistics collide: pumpkins are fruits and there’s technically no such thing as a vegetable. But try telling that to a five-year-old and see how far you get.
Traditional botanists are in decline, but this isn’t the end of plant science.
New research from the University of Geneva is helping us understand how plants protect themselves from the sun.
Modern agriculture is synonymous with monoculture. That lack of diversity is bad news for plants’ natural immune defenses. Researchers are figuring out how to help plants fend off microbes – without pesticides.
The fossilized plant Montsechia relied on water to disseminate its genetic material and may rewrite the book on when and how the first flowering plants evolved.
When people say ‘say it flowers’, you can bet they’re not talking about titan arum.
A “Pleistocene Park” might be a more realistic scenario.
OK, it doesn’t smell great. But skunk cabbage has a unique secret weapon to help it be one of the first plants to emerge from the snow at the end of winter.
A new report by MPs recommends greater independence for financial decisions, and a secure funding strategy.
Indigenous Australian practices, honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we look at different aspects of First Australians’ traditional life and…
One of nature’s most spectacular events occurs every autumn, when the leaves of hardwood trees burst into brilliant color before falling to the ground. These autumnal displays in the eastern United States…
A little item buried on the inside pages of newspapers recently caused a small stir. Latin plant names, it was claimed, were “in danger of dying out”, following a decision by the International Botanical…
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professeur, Biologie et Biochimie végétales, IUF, Université de Lorraine
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Senior Zoologist and Botanical Curator, Queensland Herbarium
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Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, Emory University
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Senior Research Professor, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution, UNSW Sydney
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Research botanist at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia/Environment Institute, University of Adelaide
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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Henslow Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
