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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

He learned through writing the book that his mother hailed from a “family of brilliant and daring misfits who had carved new paths in botany and medicine and left-wing politics,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 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

And in Vienna—the very place where Mendel had failed his botany exam in 1856—another young botanist, Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, also rediscovered Mendel’s laws.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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