Dr Caitlin Kight recently broadcast a programme on SourceFM about the nastier side of plants. You can view the in-studio video recording here or on her YouTube channel.

Do our crop plants have to be as big as they are? Eh? Well, not such a daft question as you might think. Searching for a more cost-effective (i.e. cheaper!) alternative to inhibitors of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis to study the role(s) of BRs in plants, Thomas Hartwig et al. propose the fungistat propiconazole (Pcz) as [...]