Warning for the zoophobic: this item is about Caenorhabditis elegans – a free-living, transparent nematode {‘roundworm’ –sometimes known as ‘the Arabidopsis of animal biology’ [that’s Arabidopsis (frequently described as ‘the fruit fly of plant biology’) and fruit fly – Drosophila – which in its turn is occasionally referred to as the ‘maize of zoology’…]}. Enough, [...]

Scott Bauer, USDA ARS. It being such a rare TV event these days, I have to ensure that everybody is aware of the recent series on BBC4 (a digital channel from the UK’s British Broadcasting Corporation), Botany: A Blooming History. It was a three-parter presented by Timothy Walker, Director of the University of Oxford’s Botanic [...]