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DECEMBER 2024: Yearly reflection: what are the most pressing issues in plant biology? Are they being addressed?

NOVEMBER 2024: The role of soil…how what we can’t see affects what we do!

OCTOBER 2024: How does plant science interact with other areas of biology?

SEPTEMBER 2024: The role of data science

AUGUST 2024: Funding into plant biology - what is the most effective way to ensure innovation?

JULY 2024: Comparing and Contrasting Plant Hormones

JUNE 2024: Roots - The Underground Stabilisers

MAY 2024: Poaceae: The feeders of the world

APRIL 2024: Aquatic Plants - How have they adapted to their environment? What can we learn from them?

MARCH 2024: The role of gender equality in plant biology

FEBRUARY 2024: A Brief Introduction and Debate: The Role of Plants in Medicine

JANUARY 2024: George Washington Carver - A Man who Changed the World

DECEMBER 2023: The function of Nitric Oxide

NOVEMBER 2023: What role does AI have in biology?

OCTOBER 2023: Biotechnology - the latest advancements in plant biotechnology

SEPTEMBER 2023: Plant Ribosomes

AUGUST 2023: What social responsibility do we as young people have to the scientific world?

JULY 2023: Herbicides - how do they work? Should they be used? Let’s unpack it!

JUNE 2023: Biofuels - what is their past, present and future?

MAY 2023: Plant Ribosomes

APRIL 2023: An Inside Look into Seed Banks

MARCH 2023: How have Syria and Turkey’s earthquakes affected botanical life in the areas?

FEBRUARY 2023: A. thaliana - what is it and why is it everywhere?

JANUARY 2023: How can we make the field of plant biology more diverse and welcoming?

DECEMBER 2022: Discussion on Helen Blackwell’s ‘Chemical Genetic Approaches to Plant Biology’

NOVEMBER 2022: What should G20 address in relation to agriculture, biotechnology, medicine and everything plant related?

OCTOBER 2022: Plant physical Defenses against Pathogens

SEPTEMBER 2022: Plant Chemical Defenses against Pathogens

AUGUST 2O22: Tobacco Mosaic Virus

JULY 2022: Discussion on David Hershey’s ‘Making Plant Biology Relevant’

JUNE 2022: Environmental Activism: What is the best path to take to achieve action?

MAY 2022: Spotlight: Linnaeus

APRIL 2022: Plant tissue culture

MARCH 2022: Chloroplasts!

FEBRUARY 2022 : Mesophyll cells

JANUARY 2022: Plant genomes

DECEMBER 2021: COP 26

NOVEMBER 2021 : The development of asymmetric organocatalysis

OCTOBER 2021 : What receptors do plants have to respond to temperature changes?

SEPTEMBER 2021 : Flooding from Hurricane Ida - how can plants prevent flooding?