Plants:
Thanks Bill for drawing my attention to iNaturalist which has the makings of an awesome site! What is it? It is essentially a Google Map where people can add pins every time they see an interesting critter: a plant,...
Posted on August 27, 2008 12:13 AM • 7 Comments •
Friendly blogger Pamela Roland, the author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food which I am reading right now (and which was recently reviewed in PLoS Biology), has just had a paper published in PLoS Genetics:...
Posted on August 22, 2008 11:41 AM • 0 Comments •
Welcome to the seventh edition of Berry Go Round, the carnival about all things botanical. The previous edition was last month at Seeds Aside and the 8th issue will be at the end of August on Not Exactly Rocket Science....
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Posted on July 28, 2008 12:36 AM • 1 Comments •
Next edition of Berry Go Round, the carnival about all things related to plants, will alight here at A Blog Around The Clock tomorrow (probably late afternoon), so please send your submissions tonight by midnight EDT to: Coturnix AT gmail...
Posted on July 25, 2008 4:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Five species of ferns, happily cohabitating in a single large flowerpot on my porch - I have four other species, but those appear to be happier when kept seperately, one in each pot:...
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Posted on June 19, 2008 5:18 PM • 2 Comments •
I was wondering what to do about the Classic Papers Chellenge. The deadline is May 31st, and I am so busy (not to mention visiting my dentist twice week which incapacitates me for the day, pretty much), so I decided...
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Posted on May 29, 2008 4:08 PM • 5 Comments •
(First posted on July 21, 2006) Some plants do not want to get eaten. They may grow in places difficult to approach, they may look unappetizing, or they may evolve vile smells. Some have a fuzzy, hairy or sticky surface,...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 4:53 PM • 7 Comments •
There are many organisms that one can extract milky substances from, but cactus is NOT one of those. Which is a simple and useful way to figure out if the needly thing in front of you is a cactus or...
Posted on April 6, 2008 2:03 PM • 1 Comments •
Excitement on science blogs! Karen James of the Beagle Project Blog has just today published a paper in PLoS ONE: Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) for Pan-Genomic Evolutionary Studies of Non-Model Organisms: Background High-throughput tools for pan-genomic study, especially the DNA...
Posted on February 26, 2008 10:27 PM • 1 Comments •
'Fiona' Gene Controls Flower's Physiologic Clock: Scientists have found a new gene that regulates the daily and yearly physiological cycles of flowering and seeding. POSTECH researchers, led by Nam Hong-gil and Kim Jeong-sik, said that they named the gene FIONA1...
Posted on February 25, 2008 10:41 AM • 0 Comments •
I was lucky to be in the car at the right time this morning to catch a story about Mastodons in Manhattan: A Botanical Puzzle, i.e., why honey locust trees in NYCity have long thorns - an interesting story (click...
Posted on February 22, 2008 9:56 AM • 3 Comments •
As a part of the Darwin Day celebration the North Carolina Botanical Garden has organized a series of events for today, culminating in the lecture "Darwin the Botanist" by Dr.William Kimler, a Darwinian scholar and the professor of History (of...
Posted on February 12, 2008 1:02 PM • 2 Comments •
A good WaPo article: Pelosi takes heat for OK of farm bill Ken Cook explains it very clearly: The Pelosi Farm Bill: A Corn Subsidy Windfall...
Posted on July 21, 2007 3:09 PM • 0 Comments •
New Habanero Blasts Taste Buds -- And Pepper Pests: The super-hot, bright orange TigerPaw-NR habanero pepper offers extreme pungency for pepper aficionados, plus nematode resistance that will make it a hit with growers and home gardeners. Plant geneticist Richard L....
Posted on July 12, 2007 1:56 AM • 1 Comments •
Festival of the Trees #7 is up on The Voltage Gate...
Posted on January 1, 2007 1:57 PM • 0 Comments •
Festival of the Trees 6 - Taking Root and Bearing Fruit - is up on Arboreality....
Posted on December 3, 2006 1:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Considering that circadian clocks were first discovered in plants, and studied almost exclusively in plants for almost a century before people started looking at animals in the early 20th century, it is somewhat surprising that the molecular aspects of the...
Posted on October 7, 2006 1:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Team Describes Unique Desert Cloud Forest: Trees that live in an odd desert forest in Oman have found an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds, MIT scientists report. In an area that is characterized mostly...
Posted on September 20, 2006 12:53 PM • 1 Comments •
You have until August 29th to write a post about trees, or a particular tree, or a picture of a really cool tree, or a poem about a tree...and send it to Burning Silo for the next edition of the...
Posted on August 13, 2006 8:09 PM • 8 Comments •
Well, this Friday Weird Sex Blogging is not going to be so unique. After all, Janet and Zuzu have already blogged about it, but who can resist a phallic-looking, rotten-meat smelling, fly-attracting flower! And it is not a B-grade movie...
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Posted on August 12, 2006 12:41 AM • 6 Comments •
The second Festival of the Trees is up on Roundrock Journal. It's big and beautiful!...
Posted on August 1, 2006 1:23 PM • 0 Comments •
Some plants do not want to get eaten. They may grow in places difficult to approach, they may look unappetizing, or they may evolve vile smells. Some have a fuzzy, hairy or sticky surface, others evolve thorns. Animals need to...
Posted on July 21, 2006 10:43 AM • 26 Comments •
The first edition of the Festival of the Trees, the blog carnival of tree lovers, is up on Via Negativa. It is huge and beautiful!...
Posted on July 1, 2006 1:06 PM • 1 Comments •
The circadian clock in the chestnut tree stops during winter dormancy. Why?
Posted on June 26, 2006 9:59 AM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
