The world cannot rely solely on high tech, genetic modification to generate the extra food needed to satisfy a human population projected to peak at about 9.5 billion later this century, according to …
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 botanical purposes. As an artform it is often …
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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 down and exploiting a number of wheat’s key genetic traits in a bid to …
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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. In a paper published today in the journal Nature …
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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 of food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Our fossil fuels were formed by them. …
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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 Church of England recognised Latin was a barrier to understanding, and published the Great …
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