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Opinion: 探花直播flower breeders who sold X-ray lilies and atomic marigolds

24 May 2016

Helen Anne Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) discusses the history of our fascination with floral novelties.

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Festival of Plants

Cambridge 探花直播 Botanic Garden Festival of Plants

10 May 2016

Cambridge 探花直播 Botanic Garden is holding its annual Festival of Plants on Saturday 14 May 2016, offering something for everyone to enjoy: from...

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This microscopic image shows the spores and hyphae of 'friendly' arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus interacting with a plant root.

鈥楽moke detector鈥 enables fungal partnership that allowed plants to first survive on land

18 Dec 2015

A protein that detects hormones in smoke has a much wider and more ancient role in the plant kingdom 鈥 detecting microscopic soil fungi which...

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Plant cells twisting and weaving in 3-D cultures

Cells cling and spiral 鈥榣ike vines鈥 in first 3D tissue scaffold for plants

26 Aug 2015

New cost-effective material which mimics natural 鈥榚xtracellular matrix鈥 has allowed scientists to capture previously unseen behaviour in individual...

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Dry rice field at dusk

Fungus enhances crop roots and could be a future 'bio-fertiliser'

04 May 2015

鈥淎ncient relationship鈥 between fungi and plant roots creates genetic expression that leads to more root growth. Common fungus could one day be used...

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130901-Glover

Botanic Garden names new Director

09 Jan 2013

Dr Beverley Glover has been named as the new Director of Cambridge 探花直播 Botanic Garden. Dr Glover will take up the post, and the associated...

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Root of Arabidopsis thaliana with green fluorescent protein decorating cell membrane and red fluorescent protein marking nuclei.

Lighting up plant cells to engineer biology

05 Apr 2012

Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique for measuring and mapping gene and cell activity through fluorescence in living plant tissue.

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Don't Eat the Plants

Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants

23 May 2011

Are plants as defenceless as they appear...

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Stooks

Scientists aim to improve photosynthesis to increase food and fuel production

11 Apr 2011

New collaboration aims to address the growing demand for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.

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Flower

Seeding growth: plant sciences

01 May 2010

探花直播study of plants is blossoming in Cambridge, with new facilities, new research and soon a major new institute.

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