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How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War
When civil war broke out in Syria, Ahmed Amri immediately thought about seeds. Specifically, 141,000 packets of them sitting in cold storage 19 miles south of Aleppo...
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Rare African plant signals diamonds beneath the soil
Geologist discovers first botanical indicator for diamond-bearing rock
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How to crystallise flowers like the Victorians
An expert on crystallising flowers shares the best edible flowers to use to create sweet treats.
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Grow your own avocados at home with the AvoSeedo
Beat the avocado shortage by growing your own.
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The Soviet Military Secret That Could Become Alaska’s Most Valuable Crop
Al Poindexter’s front yard in the south-central plain of Alaska has been taken over by a spread of more than 2,000 cell trays, each growing dozens of plants...
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Bamboo Mathematicians
In the late 1960s, a species of bamboo called Phyllostachys bambusoides--commonly known as the Chinese Mainland Bamboo or Japanese Timber Bamboo--burst into flower. The species originated in China,...
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NASA Guide to Air-Filtering Houseplants
Read about NASA's study on the most effective indoor plants for removing toxic agents from the air.
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How Urban Beekeepers Safeguard Their Hives
Across the country, the fuzzy flyers are dying off or being snatched. Apiarists share their tips for keeping hives alive.
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Scientists find way to create supersized fruit
When Spanish explorers first brought domesticated tomatoes to Europe 500 years ago, the fruit was already gigantic compared with its olive-sized wild counterparts. Researchers trying to understand the genetic basis of this girth have uncovered a way to make other fruits larger as well. The team discovered this secret by studying two mutant tomato strains that had many branches coming off the upper part of the stem and that produced unusually fecund fruit.
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The Intelligent Plant
Depending on whom you talk to in the plant sciences today, the field of plant neurobiology represents either a radical new paradigm in our understanding of life or a slide back down into the murky scientific waters last stirred up by “The Secret Life of Plants.” Its proponents believe that we must stop regarding plants as passive objects—the mute, immobile furniture of our world—and begin to treat them as protagonists in their own dramas, highly skilled in the ways of contending in nature.
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A Proposal to Modify Plants Gives G.M.O. Debate New Life
What’s in a name? A lot, if the name is genetically modified organism, or G.M.O., which many people are dead set against. But what if scientists used the precise techniques of today’s molecular biology to give back to plants genes that had long ago been bred out of them? And what if that process were called “rewilding?”
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Plants Know When They Are Being Eaten
(and Freak Out)
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Roadside verges ‘last refuge for wild flowers’
More than 700 species of wild plants - almost half of the native flora of the British Isles - are found on road verges, according to a study.
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The slithering Trachyandra plant
Trachyandra is a genus of plants similar to Albuca, both bulbs belonging to the order Asparagales and both native to South Africa. And, like Albuca, some Trachyandra produce transfixingly tortuous foliage, like the unidentified species pictured here.
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M O R N I N G
Yesterday morning I went for a walk before going to work. There were many of these flowers, which are the national flower of Denmark. The morning dew was still there on many flowers and plants.
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Grow the Herbs
At the moment, on an illegal fire-escape garden and an even more illegal rooftop garden, I’m growing chile peppers, strawberries, Swiss chard, figs, a few kinds of tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, and herbs. All but the last of these are pure vanity; it is not cost-effective to grow fruits or vegetables at home. I garden because it’s fun and it feels direct and physical to make something that isn’t a bunch of pixels on a screen.
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Scientists are closing in on the ultimate secrets of plant photosynthesis
A closer look at the remarkable way that plants run on solar energy.
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The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution
Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.
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Surviving in the Wild: 19 Common Edible Plants
19 common edible wild plants. Look them over and commit the plants to memory.
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Cushion plants harbour tiny mountain worlds inside
Turtle-shaped cushion plants dominate the otherwise barren rocks high up in the mountains, and within each one is a unique and diverse ecosystem
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