Category Archives: biodiversity
How does a flower come to be?
16 August 2016 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 by an order of … Continue reading
The Nagoya Protocol: The fair and equitable use of genetic resources
3 August 2016 By Katie Beckett, ABS Project Manager at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy The world’s flora has been studied for millennia. The first plant records known to exist are from the Neolithic Revolution, about 1000 … Continue reading
State of the World’s Plants
31 May 2016 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 science and policy symposium on the topic. … Continue reading
3 reasons I attend scientific conferences. What are yours?
10 May 2016 By Keir Bailey, a PhD student at the University of York What was the last conference you went to? Did you take time to think about what gained from it? Here are my top 3 things I … Continue reading
PlantSci2016 conference: Plants in a changing world, from molecular to ecosystem
19 April 2016 By Geraint Parry, GARNet Coordinator Five years after the inaugural meeting of the UK Plant Science Federation took place at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in 2011, the UK PlantSci 2016 conference returned to this worldwide centre … Continue reading
Actions for plant science in the UK – UKPSF Working Group reports
A personal overview – by Dr Sandy Knapp FRSB Plant science has a broad reach – from molecules to ecosystems, and from blue skies to near-market research and practical applications. The UKPSF was formed to bring the plant science sector … Continue reading
Fast-tracking from the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School
Celia Knight FRSB talks to Dr Ed Mitchard It’s been 10 years since the first summer school and one of the 2005 alumni is leading his own research in an academic position already. I asked Ed Mitchard to write about … Continue reading
How can plants change the world?
By Dr Joseph Buhagiar FSB, lecturer at the University of Malta. He received the first overseas award of the Royal Society of Biology’s Regional Grant Scheme. It all started with an email from David Urry on 6th January pertaining to … Continue reading
The Global Plant Council
Did you know the UK Plant Sciences Federation is a member of the Global Plant Council (GPC)? What is the Global Plant Council? The Global Plant Council (GPC) is a non-profit coalition of plant, crop, agricultural and environmental science societies … Continue reading
The Gatsby Plant Science Summer School – 10 years on
By Celia Knight FSB Ten years after the first Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, I’d like to introduce the first of a series of blogs to highlight some of the progress made in the science presented 10 years ago and … Continue reading