Tag: Pamela Diggle

  • Nation & World

    In plant tug-of-war, mom wins

    Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum researchers examining how the battle of the sexes is waged in plants have found a maternal path to victory.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A learning gap is filled with plants

    With classes in plant morphology fading in universities across the country, an Arnold Arboretum short course is seeking to plug the hole, bringing in top botany graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for an intensive, two-week course.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Actually, the star’s a turkey

    Visiting Professor Pamela Diggle took listeners into the botanical roots of Thanksgiving dinner, illustrating how nature’s everyday trials forced plants to come up with unusual — and delicious — ways to survive.

    5 minutes