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botany

[bot-n-ee] / ˈbɒt n i /


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Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

"The samples have proved to be an unexpected, unique and very exciting archive of DNA from wind-dispersed biological particles," says Nils Cronberg, a botany researcher at Lund University.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

First, a botany crash-course: You can’t just plant a seed from your favorite apple to grow more of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

“We’ve always been intrigued by overlap between plants and humans,” study coauthor Pradeep Kachroo, a botany professor at the University of Kentucky, told Salon in a video interview.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

Joseph Hooker took the botany side of natural selection and showed how Charles’s theory seemed to work among plants.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman




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