The Acacia debate
A plant name dispute that has bubbled away for a decade has finally been resolved at the XVIII International Botanical […]
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Decisions of the Congress on nomenclature
Key decisions of the Nomenclature Section of the XVIII IBC Written by Nicholas Turland The Nomenclature Section met for five
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The vines they are a-changin’
Climate change is already changing the environment of the established “terroirs” of Australian wines, such as the Coonawarra and the
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Feeding the future
The world cannot rely solely on high tech, genetic modification to generate the extra food needed to satisfy a human
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The Eternal Order in Nature: The Science of Botanical Illustration
Botanical illustration incorporates an extraordinary range of plant representations from flower paintings to finely detailed drawings of plants used for
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Improving wheat yields for global food security
Issued by CSIRO Ref 11/81 With the world’s population set to reach 8.9 billion by 2050, CSIRO scientists are hunting
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Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift?
Issued by CSIRO Ref 11/78 Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity.
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No plants: no foods, no fuel, no life…
Monday at the Botanic Congress For humanity, all seven billion of us, plants, algae and fungi are the major source
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Science and religion agree – again…
Botanists drop Latin for new species descriptions A rose by any other name would smell as sweet In 1539 the