nautil.us The Race to Protect Sweet Corn
Breeding a variety that can withstand disease and taste better, too.
The science of plant life and a branch of biology.
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aeon.co The tree as foot-soldier of Chinese merchants and empires | Aeon EssaysHow the trees of China – fir, camphor, ironwood and nanmu – were used to build an empire that lasted for centuries
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Botany @lemmy.ml PanaX @lemmy.ml 
daily.jstor.org Stevia’s Global Story - JSTOR DailyNative to Paraguay, Ka’a he’e followed a circuitous path through Indigenous medicine, Japanese food science, and American marketing to reach the US sweeteners market.
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Botany @lemmy.ml PanaX @lemmy.ml 
daily.jstor.org What Happens to a Tree When It Dies? - JSTOR DailyDecomposing trees on the forest floor become "dead wood"—a part of ecosystems that researchers are only beginning to understand.
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www.latrobe.edu.au Sex lives of orchids reads like science fictionflowers, orchid, pollination, database, species, flowers, interantional,
An international team of scientists including researchers at La Trobe University and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria have created a global database of pollination data for almost 3000 orchid species.