Botany is officially ‘hot’ (or even ‘really cool’…), according to no less a publication than the FT (Financial Times) Magazine, where Clive Cookson lists ‘plants to feed the world’ amongst his ‘Science’s 10 hottest fields’. Musing on the projected global population increase from 7 billion later in 2011 to 9 billion mid-21st century, Cookson argues [...]