State of the World’s Plants
By Richard Deverell – Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recently published the first annual report on the State of the World’s Plants, alongside an international...
View ArticleBuilding a vision for the future: creating a roadmap for UK plant sciences
9 June 2016 By Micha Hanzel, science policy intern, and Alessandro Allegra, senior science policy officer at the Royal Society of Biology Plant science has a central role to play in so many of the...
View ArticlePlant IP – how the sands are shifting
27 June 2016 By Penny Maplestone FRSB, Chief Executive of the British Society of Plant Breeders Say the words broccoli and tomato to a group of European plant breeders and the chances are you will...
View ArticleHow does a flower come to be?
By Ian Street, Research Associate at Dartmouth College A flowering world There are around 369,000 known flowering plant species on Earth today, by far the most numerous group of plants living on Earth...
View ArticleOn the Horizon: Xylella fastidiosa — Microbe Post
By Benjamin Thompson, Head of Communications at the Microbiology Society It’s not just humans and animals that are affected by emerging diseases. In this latest addition to the On the Horizon series,...
View ArticleFarming post-Brexit: the fate of agri-environment schemes
14 October 2016 By Rebecca Nesbit, Scientific Programme Manager at Nobel Media With the plans for a post-EU Britain still unclear, farmers and conservationists are in the dark about how their income...
View ArticlePlanting the seeds of a new business
18 November 2016 Plant scientist Siobhan Gardiner is a full-time PhD student at Cranfield University, and CEO of HEROTECH8 Ltd., a robotics start-up focusing on agri-tech and humanitarian logistics in...
View ArticlePlant Science at Christmas
Guest author Ian Street looks at the two occasions when the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures focused on plant science. Inspiring future generations through science has been a key component of the...
View ArticleHelping urban agriculture take root
This post was originally published on the Royal Society of Biology’s blog on 9 January 2017. Sam Lane AMRSB looks at some of the technologies and policies that will help cities grow their own food....
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