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Housekeeping! I just wanted to apologize for missing last week’s regularly scheduled post. I have been travelling and did not have time to work on my blog. So… yeah, sorry about that. I’ll try to plan ahead better next time. Before we start, I also wanted to let you know that I will be coming…
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I regret to inform you that preparation for this week’s blog post has taken me longer than I expected. Don’t worry, that post will come out next week. While I’m busy cooking that up, I would just like to share with you a little inspirational story from the garden. I’ve grown a bunch of sunflowers…
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I’ll be the first to admit that this title doesn’t make much sense. We’ll only be talking about one kind of plastid today: the etioplast! Etioplasts are plastids which inhabit plant tissues grown in the dark. They undergo rapid conversion to chloroplasts when light is available to power photosynthesis. One of the easiest ways to…
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How do plants sense gravity? I’ve been growing some sunflower seedlings indoors under artificial lights. To demonstrate that plants can sense gravity, I turned one pot on its side and left it in a dark cupboard overnight. As you can see in Figure 1, the seedlings reorient their growth so that they once again face…
