Plants are being used to help solve crimes. The pollen and seed s they can leave behind can often become key pieces of evidence. But, how does this all work? While plants aren’t able to testify in ...

Forensic botany has traditionally focused on flowering plants and pollen, while bryophytes have received little systematic attention despite their ubiquity, persistence, and distinctive morphological ...

Dedication -- Foreword / Bruce Budowle -- Acknowledgements -- The editor -- Contributors -- Chap. 1. Introduction to forensic botany / Heather Miller Coyle -- Chap. 2. Basic plant biology / Heather ...

A forensic botanist helped solve a kidnapping and attempted rape in the Waterford Lakes area by linking algae on the victim’s and suspect’s clothes to a retention pond where the man dragged her, the ...

Plant materials have been used to solve crimes on television shows, in books and in real life. The use of plant materials in solving crimes is called forensic botany. Plant materials utilized in ...

In crime investigations, we usually think of fingerprints, DNA, or surveillance cameras. But recent studies are showing that even the smallest plants can tell powerful stories. Moss, a tiny plant that ...

There is a new tool in the ongoing war on drugs and it comes from a forensic scientist at the University of New Haven. Heather Miller Coyle, an associate professor in the Henry C. Lee College of ...

WEST HAVEN -- Law enforcement officials who have obtained a suspect's DNA can input the evidence into a national database and potentially learn the criminal's identity. Soon, they will be able to do ...