Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser - Thinking without a brain
Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser is the Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory,…
Dr Oliver Pescott - Alien plants
Dr Oliver Pescott from the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology…
Dr Leah Band - Maths to understand plant growth
Dr Leah Band is based at the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology…
Prof Diane Bassham - Autophagy
Prof Diane Bassham works at Iowa State University where she researches…
Dr Jonathan Jones - How plants fight microbes
Dr Jonathan Jones of the The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwick UK…
Endangered species in Botanic Gardens
How do we identify and conserve the world's endangered species…
Dr Ed Mitchard - Measuring Forests from Space
Dr Ed Mitchard of the University of Edinburgh speaks about his…
The zoology beneath your feet
Think of a zoologist, and you probably think of someone studying…
One plant's weird way to attract pollinators
Through a series of chemical reactions, the central spadix…
Can plants make decisions?
Professor Ottoline Leyser discusses the different survival strategies…
Pollution turns carnivorous plants veggie
Millett J, Foot G.W., Svensson B. (2015) Nitrogen deposition…
Size matters... when you're a leaf
A new study suggests small leaves are more resistant to drought…
Socotra - the weirdest island on earth
About 400 kilometres south of the Arabian Peninsula lies an group…
Trouble in Paradise
If Eden has a modern parallel, then arguably it is the Galapagos…
Master of Disguise
Boquila trifoliolata is a climbing plant endemic to the swathes…
Thar She Blows: of Saharan Dust and Marine Productivity
The Sahara Desert is not something you would usually associate…