“This device is very precise, and will allow a plant to receive just the right amount of water,” said Hans-Dieter Seelig, a research associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s BioServe Space Technology Center, in a news release. “If a plant can tell a water valve when to open and when to close, farmers are going to save a lot of money.”
With Colorado producing four leading crops of corn, wheat, hay, and potatoes, it is no wonder that their 30,000 farms and ranches and 30.7... Read Full Story
Xylem and phloem course the rich sugars up and down the maple, the quenching salts, up and down the celery stalk in such vivid, bewildering array. The cartoonlike vector fields dimple and crease as the variables are adjusted and the parameters tweaked.
Vascular tissue is likely impervious to the superficial effects of discrete exterior calculus and cosine transforms. It is deep, pliable, and effervescent. The rigid strands cohering the stalk face forward while the microtubules exert their... Read Full Story
2 back-back interesting articles about research that has found that roots act like brains , about slime that changed its growth pattern to grow towards food. Which in an oblique way opens the mind to the possibility of holistic theory, viz., that whole extracts of plants carry intelligent information to the whole human which is why they are capable of treating the body's imbalances. Excerpted: “The tip of the root (of plants) acts like the brain of one of the lower animals,” Darwin said... Read Full Story
What does Waxmyrtle mean? Waxmyrtle ( Wax Myrtle ) is also known as Southern bayberry or candleberry because early American colonists used the fruit's pale blue, waxy covering to make fragrant bayberry candles. This custom is still carried out today by crafts people here and in other countries. Read Full Story
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