Plants: From Roots to Riches

The Victorians' pride at the effortless movement of plants around the world during the late 19th century was having an u... Read more

In 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for Chemistry "in recognition of his investigations of plant produc... Read more

Prof. Kathy Willis examines the different kinds of spiritual, physical and intellectual links that we have with the land... Read more

In 1900 three papers by three botanists, unknown to each other, appeared in the same scientific journal. Each had indepe... Read more

In 1903 a cluster of evening primrose in an abandoned potato field outside the Dutch town of Hilversum caught the eye of... Read more

Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is often a trade off with beneficial traits such as resista... Read more

Palms provide many basic necessities and are collectively one of the most important plants families after grasses and le... Read more

When in 1934 botanist Kenneth Thimann isolated the plant hormone auxin, he put an end to one of the great botanical myst... Read more

In 2005 a landmark study was published which changed the political landscape for conservation, probably for ever. Rather... Read more

At a glance, Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse ear cress) looks little more than a tiny flowering weed. But this nondescript p... Read more