Children must be taught more about the importance of plants if education about climate change and sustainability is to be effective, experts have warned. Botany should feature more heavily in the ...

Scientists have revealed a parasite's role in boosting male insect appeal by modulating host processes to facilitate female attraction, thereby enhancing the parasite's own transmission and survival.

Cyborg Botany is emerging as a new field of research where plants are being developed into interactive living technology. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists are exploring ways to ...

Dominion, demonstration, and domination: religious doctrine, territorial politics, and French plant collection / Chandra Mukerji -- Walnuts at Hudson Bay, coral reefs in Gotland: the colonialism of ...

We’ve learned a lot about plants throughout this series, but there’s much more to discover. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll peek into the future of botany. We’ll consider current plant ...

From plant names to notions of native species, many aspects of the natural world are shaped by empire. We need to decolonise, says the author of a new book – but not all experts agree When Banu ...

DURING recent years many books on botany have been published, specially for the use of students preparing for examinations. In these a few types and phases of plant life have been described somewhat ...

Part of the British Empire: the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Image: Andrew McRobb/Kew) WHAT underpins the internet, the humble tyre and the mackintosh? More critically, ...