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Plant blindness can be solved but it wont be easy.
In a few idyllic parts of Queensland grows the idiot fruit, a tall tree with intricate flowers and some of the largest seeds in Australia.
How a species of screw pine unique to Lord Howe Island has evolved its own rainwater harvesting system that allows it to grow tall.
Despite the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, passed by the US Congress 40 years ago, Native Americans still struggle to protect public lands where they practice their religions.
Only when flowering is Pilostyles visible externally, the flowers erupting from the stems of its host like a weird botanical Alien.
A wood and glass case invented in the early 19th-century transformed the movement of plants around the world. In Melbourne, several thousand people greeted a primrose on its arrival from England.
Oomycete spores hack into plants to get what they need, causing agricultural disease. Can researchers figure out how to close plants' security loopholes and create more resilient crops?
A gardening expert reveals the simple things you can do to protect your garden during a heatwave.
How will important habitats recover from the wildfires which been blazing through moorland in northern England?
There is good news for plant conservation in South Africa and internationally.
Sandpaper figs are the swiss army knife of Australian flora.
The Bunya pine is a unique and majestic Australian tree that commands respect.
The medicinal plants that chimpanzees feed on in the wild could hold the key in dealing with common diseases.
Trees evolved many times around the world.
That pre-sleep herbal tea may be doing many people a lot of good.
Humans have long been trying differentiate themselves from the rest of the biological world. Is it because we're superior, or just insecure?
Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.
Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! Why…
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CSIRO Scientist, and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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PhD Candidate in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, iThemba LABS
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Ph.D. Student in the School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech
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Research fellow, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor in Biophysics, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Chemistry, Monash University
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Research fellow, University of New England
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
