The Phytophactor

Here's another nice carnival of plant blogs . The Phactor appreciates the mention and the effort to round up so many interesting postin...

Asparagus . How easy is that? You thought botanical Latin names were so difficult, but you have been using some of them all along. Starting ...

Don’t you love it when students, especially Political Science majors, get involved in local politics? Let’s see what troubles David . The ci...

The Phactor does earn his salary, and for the sake of any Lincolnland legislators who happen to read this (if any happen to be able to read!...

Whether you knew it or not, the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, which you probably think of as a life-giving gas, is actually the toxic metab...

The Phactor is employed at an institution that often gets overlooked, and that can be rather annoying at times. Here in Lincolnland the per...

If there is some small hope for the future of our planet, it's to be found in kids like these . Actually I'm not worried about the ...

What better day to celebrate the green than St. Patrick's day. And what green is more important than chlorophyll? Chlorophyll is only f...

Visits to our teaching greenhouse still manage to deliver surprises even thought I have been doing it regularly for years. This is somethin...

There are so many things wrong with these rather smug arguments about the moral evil of stem cell research that you hardly know where to be...