The Phytophactor

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...

Some time back quite a number of plant scientists around the world were asked about what they thought were the most important questions faci...

Others have wondered the same thing ? Why is it that plants capable of fascinating the Phactor for so many years are of so little interest ...

This query (?) is asked many times a day (30+), and the web site ChaCha provides an answer . After the obvious omission of a question mark, ...

My colleagues have been very busy, and the things you can learn from them. Horsetails may have been a favored food of sauropods, and cycads...

OK, the Phytophactor is pissed. TV networks producers think programs about plants are dull and boring! What a bunch of simple-minded moron...

This picture of Cooksonia is pretty remarkable. Not so much for displaying this plant's simple beauty, not even because the picture is ...

Azure beauty berry Callicarpa dichotoma (Verbena family). Generally when it comes of fall color you think of plants whose leaves turn a nic...

The Swiss ethics committee has declared that plant scientists are not allowed to do research that offends the dignity of plants. This initi...

I firmly believe in sabbatical leaves, and it is my great good fortune to have been allowed to take four of them. The academic world of sci...

People call universities to find things out that aren't easily looked up, and for many years all the weird plant related questions have ...

Only other field biologists can appreciate and sympathize with this problem. Studies done in the field cannot control for all the variation...

April stands for so many things: spring begins, tax season ends (very significant if you're married to a CFP), the end of the semester i...

Cellulose is best known as the cell wall material of land plants and algae, and some 100 billion metric tons of cellulose are synthesized ea...