Leaves of Certain Plants Are Susceptible to Leaf Burn from Too much Sun Ginkgo leaves in sunshine To the gardening world it may have always been considered a fact,
but science has never proved the widely held belief that watering your garden in the midday sun can lead to burnt plants.
and human sunburn. oethe problem of light focusing by water droplets adhered to plants has never been investigated thoroughly,
but also opens an analogous issue of sunburn on hairy human skin after bathing. oein sunshine water drops residing on smooth hairless plant leaves are unlikely to damage the leaf tissue,
summarised Horvath and co-authors. oehowever water drops held by plant hairs can indeed cause sunburn
oeif the focal region of drops falls exactly on the dry plant surface intensely focused sunlight could theoretically start a fire,
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The shortage has compelled also a start-up yogurt company in New york to make plans to produce its yogurt in California and truck it across the country to a plant on Long island,
Dutch-based Plantlab recently announced it has figured out how to triple plant yield in a sunless,
By keeping the plants in a contained environment, Plantlab can also recycle evaporated water, which helps them grow crops using just one-tenth the water needed in traditional greenhouses.
Tiny Wings, Doodle Jump, Plants vs. Zombies and more. In terms of non-games, consumer-friendly brands like Netflix, Facebook,
Plants vs. Zombies Top Free iphone Apps: 1. Facebook 2. Pandora Radio 3. Words with Friends Free 4. Angry Birds Free 5. Skype 6. Netflix 7. Angry Birds Rio
Tree-Jackers Plant and tree alteration specialists, who manipulate growth patterns, create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves,
Plant Educators An intelligent plant will be capable of re-engineering itself to meet the demands of tomorrow s marketplace.
Plant educators will not work with lesson plans or Powerpoint presentations but the learning process will be even more effective.
The protein, extracted from rice plants containing human genes, could be used in hospitals to treat burns victims
turning the plants into biological factories#that can produce proteins that are identical to those found in humans.
With this approach they will be able to grow these plants in fields and produce blood proteins on a huge scale that would really solve all of the supply issues we currently face.#
#Invasive bugs eat invasive plant Invasive plants VS Invader bugs. The battle has begun. For 50 years, farmers, scientists,
The invasive plant native to Japan grows at such an astounding rate that people in the southern U s. joke about closing their windows at night to keep it out of the house.
What you see here is Jerry Glover, National geographic Emerging Explorer, holding the root system of a single perennial wheat plant.
There s more to this than just a freaky looking plant dreadlock. That root system represents something far bigger than itself:
Perennial plants build soil and protect against erosion in ways annual plants and their skimpy root structures simply cannot.
It s why, since large-scale corn farming replaced perennial prairie, Iowa has lost some 8 vertical inches of precious topsoil.
We have other types of molecules that make up plants and animals, but on the molecular level there is no such thing as vegetarian and non-vegetarian molecules.
#Tapping into the Secret Language of Plants Futurist Thomas Frey: Over that past week I ve had the great honor of working with both the good people at the North dakota Bankers Association in Bismarck, ND and the good people at Rabobank in Napa,
and offices are now creating information layers that will touch every plant and animal on our planet as well.
and on a certain level, this back and forth information flow becomes a rudimentary form of language between us and our plants.
the plants have always been talking, but we haven t been listening. Expanding the Information Layer Over the past several weeks
Data streams coming from these plants with give them a voice#that will help us better understand the idiosyncrasies of plant life.
you will not only be able to listen#to the data coming from your plants, but you will also be able to visually see#what they re telling you.
The language of plants will come into full view as we add additional sensors, probes, and other signaling technology.
The crazy people of the past, who spent every waking moment of their day talking to their plants
as we move down this relentless path towards understanding the secret language of the plant world.
or too much of a brownthumb to grow their own plants, so why not let some gadget do all the hard work?
Once the plant cartridge (which each start at around US $10, depending on the type) reaches the end of its lifecycle,
400 plants across 16 categories, including perennials, shrubs, annuals, house plants and more. There are also approximately 5, 700 photos within the app for visual reference.
Cost: $9. 99 2. Fruit Garden Fruit Garden focuses on the harvesting of 22 different fruits,
Each entry also includes recommended insecticides to keep your plants pest-free. Cost: $4. 99 4. Bugs and Insects Speaking of bugs, with a database of more than 900 pests, the Bugs and Insects app is a great resource for gardeners looking to determine the culprits who have been nibbling on their harvests,
$1. 99 8. Garden Pilot Garden Pilot combines a directory of more than 14,000 plants with a comprehensive article database.
A recent update to the app also shows which plants are available for purchase at local app-participating retailers.
but only contains a listing of 150 plants. Cost: $2. 99 9. Gardens If you prefer more visual gardening instruction, this app features informative videos on topics such as Small Gardens, Big Ideas,#Novice Knockout Gardens,
The Plant Doctor You ve sowed the seeds, watered per instruction, and eagerly await the fruits of your labor.
But wait#is supposed that plant to be yellow? The Plant Doctor is a free app that provides a listing of the ten most common plant ailments.
If your plant s issue isn t addressed by any of these, a form can be filled out within the app and sent directly to a plant pathologist for an official diagnosis and treatment options#each one costing $1. 99.
Cost: Free BONUS: ilocate Gardening Supplies In order to get the garden, you need the garden tools. ilocate Gardening Supplies offers listings of garden supply retailers in your area.
With a simple and easy-to-use interface, this app provides one-click calling functionality and relies on Google maps to identify locations nearby.
Their LED lights can change spectrum slightly over the course of day to stimulate different growing phases in the plants.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant some 50 km away suffered a series of core meltdowns and explosions after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems,
vegetables, milk, seafood and water and, in hot spots more than 100 km from the plant, tea.
and distributing sunflowers and other plants. We plant sunflowers, field mustard, amaranthus and cockscomb, which are believed all to absorb radiation,
The amount varies from plant species to plant species, #said Hartmut Doebel, George washington University researcher and beekeeper.
but rather to identify the plants that bees have been feeding on, and then isolate compounds that may be used to develop new drugs.
Its an urgent problem#Long-term, the research aims to point a way towards creating drugs through the plants rather than the honey itself.
professor of microbiology at Cardiff University, sees tackling bugs such as MRSA with new plant-based products as an urgent matter.
floods and the cost of energy required to plant, fertilize, harvest and transport it. And prices will only get more unstable.
but according to the rhythm of the plant#which may be better at shorter cycles than 24 hours#rather than the rotation of the Earth.
a nursery is nurturing cuttings of fittonia, a colorful house plant, in two layers of 70 square meters (750 sq. feet) each.
and the temperature is similar to the plants native South america. After the cuttings take root#the most sensitive stage in the growing process#they are wheeled into a greenhouse
The process cuts the required time to grow a mature plant to six weeks from 12 or more.
075 sq. feet) and 14 layers of plants could provide a daily diet of 200 grams (7 ounces) of fresh fruit and vegetables to the entire population of Den Bosch,
Plants need only specific wavelengths of light to grow, but in nature they must adapt to the full range of light as a matter of survival.
the plants become more efficient, using less energy to grow. Nature is good but too much nature is said killing
standing in a steaming cubicle amid racks of what he called happy plants.##For more than a decade the four researchers have been tinkering with combinations of light, soil and temperature on a variety of plants,
and now say their growth rate is three times faster than under greenhouse conditions. They use no pesticides,
and wrapped around a plant, will be tuned even more efficiently to its needs. One of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA
which installed them in the Space shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.
and other ailments#A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage,
The plants and vegetables were crushed probably with a mortar and pestle#we could still see the fibres in the tablets.
whether a plant in the Hutt Valley should go ahead. A similar plant that opened in Canterbury in 2009 has composted so far five million disposable nappies.
The new service would be funded, in part, by parents paying a subscription service of about $4 a week for composting their diapers in an enclosed, dedicated facility,
Scientists have developed the first mobile app to identify plants by simply photographing a leaf. The free iphone and ipad app, called Leafsnap, instantly searches a growing library of leaf images amassed by the Smithsonian Institution.
#Plant Intelligence So how smart are plants? And, can we make them smarter? Plants like the Venus Flytrap demonstrate a small amount of intelligence
when they attract a fly into their sticky trap and close their mouth around it.
In a somewhat similar display of plant intelligence, Poison ivy plants are able to sense danger through the proximity of a person or animal,
and as a defense mechanism, the plant will shoot out a poisonous spay. But are plants trainable?
Can we implant shapes or design specs into a plant and have them grow into that shape?
As I mentioned above, will it be possible to train#a tree to have its branches grow into the shape of end tables, coffee tables, chairs, or rocking chairs.
While its easy for me to blur the lines between plants and animals and between organic and inorganic material,
p-menthane 3, 8-diol (PMD), a plant-based repellent, is registered also with EPA. In two recent scientific publications,
officials at USDAS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are responsible for the studies. Federal environmental law requires the agency to complete such reviews before deregulating biotech crops.
#Pepsico Unveils Worldâ##s First Plastic Bottle Made Entirely From Plant-based Materials Pepsicos 100%plant-based bottle.
Pepsico Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material, which it says bests the technology of competitor Coca-cola
#Pepsico says it is the worlds first bottle of a common type of plastic called PET made entirely of plant-based materials.
Coca-cola Co. currently produces a bottle using 30 per cent plant-based materials and recently estimated it would be several years before it has a 100 per cent plant bottle thats commercially viable.
By using plant material instead, companies reduce their environmental impact. Pepsi says the new plastic will cost about the same as traditional plastic.
he stumbled over fossil plants on the Beardmore Glacier at 82 degrees south. The extra weight of these specimens may have been a factor in his untimely demise.
At only three to five million years old, they were some of the last plants to have lived on the continent before the deep freeze set in.
One broccoli plant per pot, pots should be 12 to 16 inches deep. What to Watch out For:
youre guaranteed to start seeing little green worms all over your broccoli plants. To avoid this, cover your broccoli plants with floating row cover or lightweight bed sheets.
Plant beans four inches apart in a container that is at least 12 inches deep. What to Watch out For:
Grow one plant per 16-inch deep container. What to Watch out For: Cabbage worms (see Broccoli, above.
Plant one pepper plant per each 8 to 12 inch deep pot. What to Watch out For:
Plant beet seeds three inches apart in a container that is twelve inches deep. Because each beet seed is actually a cluster of seeds,
Other greens can be grown a few plants to a pot#they should be planted at least 4 inches apart
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#Chocolate Healthier Than Fruit: Study Researchers found that chocolates contain more healthy plant compounds and antioxidants, gram-for-gram, than fruit juice.
Chocoholics, you can now gorge on your favourite treat without a sense of guilt, for scientists have claimed that its actually healthier than many fruit.
They have proved that it is packed with more healthy plant compounds and antioxidants gram-for-gram than fruit juice and provides far more nutritional goodness than food experts had thought previously.
and cocoa drinks found that they too had more antioxidant activity and more flavanols#health-giving plant chemicals#than fruit.
She says scientists at Ford are experimenting by mixing some mushroom roots together with other plant matter, like wheat straw,
along with details of banana plants and annatto shrubs in the garden. Papaya and manioc would also be grown there,
and wildlife. 2. Contamination of Non-GE Crops Alfalfa plants are pollinated by bees, most of which can travel
and pollinate plants as far as five miles away. So a farmer who has been making a concerted effort to steer clear of GMOS in his fields can very easily be contaminated.
and absorbed into the plants whole system as it grows. It makes the plant toxic to certain insects
if they eat the sap. However scientists fear that the systemic chemical also makes it into the plants pollen
and nectar and this is affecting bees. Research carried out by scientists at the US Department of agricultures Bee Research Laboratory,
#Genetically modified crops That Glow Green When Stressed Genetically altered Arabdopsis Thaliana plant, with green fluorescent protein (GFP) inserted near the on/off switches for anoxia and drought genes.
A group of University of Tennessee plant scientists has modified genetically tobacco plants so that the plants will give off a phosphorescent green glow
#when plant immune systems are under stress#as might be caused by plant pathogens, drought, insects, etc.
The stress-indicating fluorescent proteins can be detected by scientific instruments only, as pictured above.)To implement this on a commercial basis,
farmers would scatter the day-glow plants amidst a far greater number of normal plants,
it is hard to imagine poor farmers of developing nations being able to afford the sentinel plants.
and record sentinel plant status and then choose the right dose of a specific pesticide which may
Scientists have engineered genetically the natural immune system of the tobacco plant to make it change colour or glow in the presence of viruses,
In laboratory tests, these photosensory plants turn red or produce a fluorescent glow when infected.
#Chicago Combats Food Deserts and Childhood Obesity One Seed at a time Chicagoans that vote for their favorite seeds, get free seeds to plant in their gardens.
get free seeds to plant in their gardens. According to the press release, voting started on January 1
#These are one of the most important pollinators of native plants,#Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, Urbana,
along with the species of plants they pollinate. Bumblebees can fly in colder weather than other species,
#and it looks a lot like a 30-foot tall Ferris wheel for plants. Trays of Chinese vegetables are stacked inside an aluminum A-frame,
so that the plants receive equal light, good air flow and irrigation. The whole system has a footprint of only about 60 square feet,
More plants can squeeze into tight city spaces, and fresh produce can grow right next to grocery stores, potentially reducing transportation costs, carbon dioxide emissions and risk of spoilage.
so plants are sheltered from shifting weather and damaging pests. But is vertical farming just a design fad,
The total food produced depends on the amount of light reaching plants. Although vertical farms can hold more plants,
they still receive just about the same quantity of sunlight as horizontal greenhouses. The plants have to share the existing light
and they just grow more slowly.##Giacomelli tells The Salt. You can t amplify the sun.#For American cities, like New york and Chicago,
artemisia is thought to improve blood circulation. She invited me to give her samples and later tested seven of the most commonly used herbs on Ikaria.
One explanation why they live so long is they eat a plant-based diet. Or it could be the absence of sugar and white flour.
The healthful plant-based diet that Seventh-day Adventists eat has been associated with an extra decade of life expectancy.
or beneficial insects with Dragon Juice Dragon Juice naturally helps eliminate many common plant problems.
Dragon Juice is a natural plant spray conditioner. It is the most effective foliar spray available for your plants!
It provides trace nutrients to your plants as well as giving them what they need (foliarly) to be healthy.
Properly maintained plants make happy & healthy plants, therefore helping them eliminate most common problems on their own.
Dragon Juice is an all in one#product meaning it helps your plants to take up more nutrients in it s existing system or medium.
It effectively eliminates the need for additives and many other toxic and ineffective products. Dragon Juice is one of the featured exhibitors at the Davinci Inventor Showcase,
Recently, inventor Juan Diaz took a moment to answer some questions about non-pesticide plant products,
The thing that led to our defining moment was need the for non-pesticide plant products,
while helping to promote positive plant growth. It is nontoxic to bees, ladybugs and other beneficial insects and therefore unique to agriculture and conventional pesticides.
Our hope is that our customers understand that natural products from nature combined without chemicals have a far superior, long term effect on plants, our planet and its people.
#¢The first sellable prototype took almost 5 years#¢The first two years was to develop a formula that would not harm plants,
#¢We pushed a lot of plants to their limits testing each ingredient to record the amounts of each compound a plant can handle.#¢
Baker and her sister, Jennifer Yuengling, 41, a plant manager, will take over the company one day from their father, Dick Yuengling Jr.
Selective breeding/strains Selective breeding is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular traits.
It allows humans to manipulate natural selection among the plants and animals they consume in order to produce food products that are genetically stable.
All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the plant in the Chinese city of Zhuhai.
Apple s iphone manufacturer, continues to build new plants and hire thousands of additional workers to make smartphones,
Yet in the state-of-the-art plant, where the assembly line runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are robots everywhere and few human workers.
an American venture capitalist at WI Harper who toured the plant in June. The New Warehouse Traditional and futuristic systems working side by side in a distribution center north of New york city show how robotics is transforming the way products are distributed, threatening jobs.
career preparation can include cutting-edge research in areas such as plant breeding or genomics. Schools in more urban regions draw students interested in local foods and healthy eating.
The company hopes to eventually install these devices in spillways and water treatment plants#nywhere with a steady current.
#Plants can see, smell, feel and remember but can they think? Are plants aware? Are plants aware?
In the new book, What a Plant Knows, #Daniel Chamovitz argues that a plant can see, smell and feel.
It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way.
A plant can even be said to have a memory. But does this mean that plants think
#or that one can speak of a neuroscience#of the flower? Chamovitz answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. 1. How did you first get interested in this topic?
My interest in the parallels between plant and human senses got their start when I was a young postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Xing-Wang Deng at Yale university in the mid 1990s.
I was interested in studying a biological process that would be specific to plants, and would not be connected to human biology (probably as a response to the six other doctors#in my family, all of
whom are physicians). So I was drawn to the question of how plants sense light to regulate their development.
It had been known for decades that plants use light not only for photosynthesis, but also as a signal that changes the way plants grow.
In my research I discovered a unique group of genes necessary for a plant to determine if it s in the light or in the dark.
When we reported our findings, it appeared these genes were unique to the plant kingdom, which fit well with my desire to avoid any thing touching on human biology.
But much to my surprise and against all of my plans I later discovered that this same group of genes is also part of the human DNA.
This led to the obvious question as to what these seemingly plant-specific#genes do in people.
Many years later, we now know that these same genes are important in animals for the timing of cell division, the axonal growth of neurons,
and the proper functioning of the immune system. But most amazingly, these genes also regulate responses to light in animals!
While we don t change our form in response to light as plants do, we are affected by lab at the level of our internal clock.
This led me to realize that the genetic difference between plants and animals is not as significant as
I began to question the parallels between plant and human biology even as my own research evolved from studying plant responses to light to leukemia in fruit flies. 2. How do think people should change how they think about plants?
People have to realize that plants are complex organisms that live rich, sensual lives. You know many of us relate to plants as inanimate objects, not much different from stones.
Even the fact that many people substitute silk flowers for real ones, or artificial Christmas trees for a live one, is exemplary at some level of how we relate to plants.
You know, I don t know anyone who keeps a stuffed dog in place of a real one!
But if we realize that all of plant biology arises from the evolutionary constriction of the rootedness#that keep plants immobile,
then we can start to appreciate the very sophisticated biology going on in leaves and flowers.
It means that plants can t escape a bad environment, can t migrate in the search of food or a mate.
So plants had to develop incredibly sensitive and complex sensory mechanisms that would let them survive in ever changing environments.
But plants are immobile. They need to see where their food is. They need to feel the weather,
Just because we don t see plants moving doesn t mean that there s not a very rich and dynamic world going on inside the plant. 3. You say that plants have a sense of smell?
The clearest example in plants is what happens during fruit ripening. You may have heard that if you put a ripe and an unripe fruit together in the same bag,
Another example of a plant using smell is how a parasitic plant called dodder finds its food.
and so has to live off of other plants. The way it finds its host plant is by smelling.
A dodder can detect minute amounts of chemicals released in the air by neighboring plants, and will actually pick the one that it finds tastiest!
because while loads of research support the idea that plants see, smell, taste and feel,
support for plant auditory prowess is indirectly proportional to the amount of anecdotal information we have about the ways in
which music may influence how a plant grows. Many of us have heard stories about plants flourishing in rooms with classical music.
Typically, though, much of the research on music and plants was, to put it mildly,
not carried out by investigators grounded in the scientific method. Not surprisingly, in most of these studies, the plants thrived in music that the experimenter also preferred.
From an evolutionary perspective it also could be that plants haven t really needed to hear.
The evolutionary advantage created from hearing in humans and other animals serves as one way our bodies warn us of potentially dangerous situations.
But plants are rooted, sessile organisms. While they can grow toward the sun, and bend with gravity, they can t flee.
As such, perhaps the audible signals we re used to in our world are irrelevant for a plant.
All that being said, I have to cover myself hear by pointing out that some very recent research hints that plants may respond to sounds.
which is irrelevant for a plant, but to certain vibrations. It will be very interesting to see how this pans out. 4. Do plants communicate with each other?
At a basic level, yes. But I guess it centers around how you define communication.
There is no doubt that plants respond to cues from other plants. For example, if a maple tree is attacked by bugs,
when describing plants, but humor me while I anthropomorphize). Are the trees communicating, meaning is attacked that tree warning its surrounding ones?
For example a very recent study showed that plants also communicate through signals passed from root to root.
In this case the talking#plant had been stressed by drought, and it told#its neighboring plants to prepare for a lack of water.
We know the signal went through the roots because this never happened if the two plants were simply in neighboring pots.
They had to have neighboring roots. 5. Do plants have a memory? Plants definitely have several different forms of memory,
just like people do. They have short term memory, immune memory and even transgenerational memory! I know this is a hard concept to grasp for some people,
but if memory entails forming the memory (encoding information), retaining the memory (storing information), and recalling the memory (retrieving information),
And some stressed plants give rise to progeny that are more resistant to the same stress
that plants think#?#No I wouldn t, but maybe that s where I m still limited in my own thinking!
Plants exhibit elements of anoetic consciousness which doesn t include, in my understanding, the ability to think.
Just as a plant can t suffer subjective pain in the absence of a brain, I also don t think that it thinks. 7. Do you see any analogy between what plants do and
what the human brain does? Can there be a neuroscience of plants, minus the neurons? First off, and at the risk of offending some of my closest friends,
I think the term plant neurobiology is as ridiculous as say, human floral biology. Plants do not have neuron
just as humans don t have flowers! But you don t need neurons in order to have cell to cell communication and information storage and processing.
Even in animals, not all information is processed or stored only in the brain. The brain is dominant in higher-order processing in more complex animals,
Different parts of the plant communicate with each other, exchanging information on cellular, physiological and environmental states.
the entire plant is analogous to the brain. But while plants don t have neurons, plants both produce and are affected by neuroactive chemicals!
For example, the glutamate receptor is a neuroreceptor in the human brain necessary for memory formation and learning.
While plants don t have neurons, they do have glutamate receptors and what s fascinating is that the same drugs that inhibit the human glutamate receptor also affect plants.
From studying these proteins in plants, scientists have learned how glutamate receptors mediate communication from cell to cell.
So maybe the question should be posed to a neurobiologist if there could be a botany of humans, minus the flowers!
Darwin, one of the great plant researchers, proposed what has become known as the root-brain#hypothesis. Darwin proposed that the tip of the root, the part that we call the meristem,
acts like the brain does in lower animals, receiving sensory input and directing movement. Several modern-day research groups are following up on this line of research.
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