The Phytophactor

Oooo!  This really is a hard experiment to design.  Placebo effect is real, and this xkcd cartoon posted nearby at the Curious Wavefunction...

Poor experimental design is the reason that the results of the apple pollination experiment were inconclusive. However, some pollination did...

Experimental work with plants takes some planning and some time.  Nothing magic about plant growth so you just have to wait, but time to get...

Field work is generally very time consuming, but for many of us that is our laboratory. This week the effort is to add a new wrinkle to a l...

My current field work deals with the ecology of a hemiparasitic plant, which is both green and photosynthetic and an obligate parasite. To t...