From the Extinction of Indigenous Languages to the Perseverance of New York City’s Wildflowers. What were the top 25 tweets of 2021 from HowPlantsWork? Here’s Part 2 – #20 to #16: #20 – Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants “Many of today’s mass-market…
What This Book Is….And Isn’t. The original version of this ebook started out, in 2013, as a compilation of some blog posts from this website. In linking these posts together, I found I needed to expand and update a lot of the information, which resulted in the first edition. Plant…
“Hello, Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?” – Pink Floyd What’s New In Plant Neurobiology? We’ve had a pretty nice summer here in the upper left-hand corner of the USA. Consequently, I’ve spent a lot of time outdoors, away…
On the Past, Present & Future of Plant Genetic Engineering Why would anyone want to insert foreign genes into plants? When and where was this technology invented? And how does it work? Who makes money from this technology? If you grow genetically-engineered crops in the field, won’t the foreign genes…
It Seems Obvious, But… Back in the day, when I was boring college undergraduates, I typically started my botany class something like this: “Do you like chocolate? How about vanilla? Did you have some coffee before class? Did you drink a little too much beer or wine or Jack Daniels…
zoomorphize (verb) – to ascribe animal features to something know (verb) – to hold information in mind; to realize something; to comprehend something What A Plant Knows. What prompted this blog post was a recently-published book called What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz,…
Back in 2007, when I was boring undergraduates at Montana State University, I read a brilliant book by David Beerling called The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History. I was recently reminded of this book by Nigel Chaffey’s “Plant Cuttings” article in the March 2012 issue of Annals of…