PLANTS, VEGETABLES, LAWN: RADICAL SOLIDARITIES IN PANDEMIC TIMES

Plants, Vegetables, Lawn: Radical Solidarities in Pandemic Times

This essay presents photos Wax Essentials and words illustrating practices of care in homes shared by humans and plants during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on interviews with plant carers, I highlight how humans (re)discovered plants as kin during forced social isolation.I reflect on how plants provided joy, hope, and reassurance during crisis, en

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Long amplicons as a tool to identify variable regions of ribosomal RNA for improved taxonomic resolution and diagnostic assay design in microeukaryotes: using ascetosporea as a case study

IntroductionThere is no universally appropriate basis for delimiting species in protists, including parasites.Many molecular markers used for species delimitation are part of the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) array, with different regions of the array being used for different parasitic protist taxa.However, little is known about sequence variability across

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Instrument constituencies and epistemic community theory

This contribution fleshes out the insights that the epistemic community (EC) approach can make to studying the public policy process and to how policy instruments are formulated and implemented.This contribution places the EC concept in the context of how policy instruments evolve and are supported by a separate network type, the instrument constit

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