While I work on my next post about plant science I thought I’d inject a short post. There aren’t many poetic/humorous/rich collective nouns for plants that aren’t generic. There are fields, forests, paddies, riparian zones, stands, copses, bouquets, bunches, beds, and cornucopias. These are pretty generic, though. The animal world gets a crash or rhinos, a … More Collective Nouns for plants.
This week is a guest post from Juliet Coates and Sharon Robinson. Mosses are a great example of why I started the Quiet Branches. They’re the kinds of plants many wouldn’t notice and don’t realize just how ancient, important, and interesting they are. I have mentioned mosses before in my review of “The Signature of … More Moss – tiny plants, huge potential
Plants have roots. And a new way of imaging them was recently published in eLife. It’s called GLO-roots and is a way to monitor roots growing in soil as well as track gene expression in those roots via glowing reporters detectable by a very sensitive imaging camera. The story of GLO-roots is clever and new, … More Roots of Modern Plant Biology.
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