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When you think about it, it’s a bit strange to view food through a lens of “meat” and “not meat” – especially when plants consume animals, and vice versa.
Essential reading for green-fingered urbanites and guerrilla gardeners.
The natural world is full of trickery and deception in the struggle for survival.
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.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
South west Australia is home to an astonishing number of plants and some of the country’s weirdest wildlife. Now we need to protect it.
As summer rolls on once again you’re despairing at a brown lawn. Perhaps you should embrace a shabbier backyard.
There’s something in the air that actually has health benefits when you take time to walk among the plants and trees. What that is exactly is still being studied by scientists.
Fungi that live inside plants can fight off nasty insect pests.
Next time you reach for the honey, spare a thought for the other vital insects that pollinate our crops.
It’s not just Australia’s animals that can be deadly, there are plenty of dangerous plants too.
In many parts of the world, Christmas and mistletoe are inextricably intertwined. But in the natural world, mistletoe has long fascinated naturalists and scientists.
There are solar-power sea slugs, so why haven’t humans mastered the art of photosynthesis?
The oldest tree in the UK is flirting with a sex change after 5,000 years. The question is whether it will it go the whole hog, or this is just a passing fancy.
Distinguished Professor Graham Farquhar has received this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his pioneering research into photosynthesis.
Rising carbon dioxide levels are making plants grow faster, sucking up more water and reducing river flows in many agriculturally important areas of Australia, according to new research.
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.
Plants on the International Space Station must figure out how to grow in a completely novel environment. Their adaptability hints at how they’ll react to changes here on Earth – or in future space outposts.
Mosses and lichens have the ability to accumulate and retain air pollutants.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, The University of Edinburgh
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Biology, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Horticultural Sciences and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, iThemba LABS
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Palaeontologist, Rhodes University
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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
