Botanicalls - plants use Twitter to tell you when they need watering!
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This is awesome - Botanicalls. See one of the developer's amazing Ignite talk:...
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Linnaeus' floral clock on the island of Mainau
Category: Lindau09
As you may have noticed, I am quite fascinated with the earliest beginnings of my scientific discipline, which was almost entirely involving research on plants. The most famous story from that early period is the construction of a Flower Clock...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Meetings I'd like to go to....Part V
Category: Ecology
Genetic Manipulation of Pest Species: Ecological and Social Challenges: In the past 10 years major advances have been made in our ability to build transgenic pest strains that are conditionally sterile, harbor selfish genetic elements, and express anti-pathogen genes. Strategies...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:48 PM • 0 Comments •
iNaturalist rocks!
Category: Ecology
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 by Coturnix at 12:13 AM • 7 Comments •
Light-Responsive genes in rice
Category: Science News
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 by Coturnix at 11:41 AM • 0 Comments •
Berry Go Round #7
Category: Plants
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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Botanical posts - you have 8 hours left!
Category: Plants
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...
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Ferns
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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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Clock Classics: It all started with the plants
Category: Clock Classics
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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Hot Peppers - Why Are They Hot?
Category: Evolution
(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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