Berry Go Round coming soon, please send your submissions…

Berry Go Round #6 will be hosted here at Seeds Aside. Please send your submissions before June, the 25th…
Also, we’re still looking for blogs willing to host the BGR next october, november and further…

Bugs and Drugs 101

Cool title, isn’t it? It comes from the head of the page I’m just going to let you read a quote from in a moment. Remember who has the balls? I just discovered back this book, within a pile of manuscripts I’m lurking through (e.g. involving mating in clonal orchards -ah, pollen flows!). This book, [...]

Pontification (presque) honorable

C’est la saison des retours de bâton candidatures. Joyeuse période pré-estivale qui préside à la réception de courriers agréables et d’un réconfort inestimable. Je n’en fais généralement pas grand cas ici même, où la vie réelle est reléguée à l’esquisse évanescente, mais je ne peux résister à quelques exceptions suivant l’adage fort sage de “l’occasion [...]

How do seeds know what plant they are?

Huh?! Indeed. Can you imagine how the world would look like if seeds had no way knowing what to grow into? That’s even risky to try: you may grow as a tropical vine where you need to accomodate for a temperate climate!
Seriously. Have you, dear requester, ever heard of DNA? Yep, plants have DNA too.

More Calligraphy

Another interesting effect of google translation modules for Seeds Aside… I still wonder how good translations are. I made trials from English into French, and apart wordy puns, it seems to work rather well. But comparing between languages with close grammatical and structure descent connections is not the same as translation between more distant ones, [...]

Seeds Aside architecture

This curious plant is a ‘map’ of Seeds Aside architecture:

This is just today’s game, via the Websites as graphs page…
Legend is as follows:

Doing science

(HT from Uncommon Ground)

Weevil thanatosis

Or playing evil dead.
Check at Burning Silo for incredible pictures.

Electronically trashing applicants

I recently applied to a (very interesting) post-doc position and received an acknowledgement for the application. Guess what the email’s title was?

Leaf section

Transversal section of a leaf, revealing parenchyme anatomy (with lacunae allowing for a greater gas exchange within the tissue). Detail of the epiderm (yep, epidermic cells are way bigger than photosynthetic active ones!) and the ‘root’ of a trichome.