Tag: botany

If plants generate magnetic fields, they’re not sayin’

If plants generate magnetic fields, they’re not sayin’

April 7, 2011:

UC Berkeley physicists are using some of the world’s most sensitive magnetic field detectors to determine whether plants, like animals, produce magnetic fields.

Undergrad wins Young Botanist of the Year award

April 28, 2011:

Berkeley senior Gracie Benson-Martin, a plant and microbial biology major, has been honored by the Botanical Society of America, for her research on a genus of tropical plants found throughout South and Central America.