Plants help make us more creative?

A few things to write about, so here we go...

First up are always the videos. This one profiles two entrepreneurs who have taken their demonstration aquaponics set-up to a local Bushwick, Bronx market.

of the embryos and endosperm in seeds sharing the same mother and father with the growth and behavior of embryos and endosperm that had genetically different parents.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-altruistic.html#jCp

of the embryos and endosperm in seeds sharing the same mother and father with the growth and behavior of embryos and endosperm that had genetically different parents.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-altruistic.html#jCp

The researchers looked at corn, in which each fertilized seed contained two "siblings"—an embryo and a corresponding bit of tissue known as endosperm that feeds the embryo as the seed grows, said CU-Boulder Professor Pamela Diggle. They compared the growth and behavior of the embryos and endosperm in seeds sharing the same mother and father with the growth and behavior of embryos and endosperm that had genetically different parents. "The results indicated embryos with the same mother and father as the endosperm in their seed weighed significantly more than embryos with the same mother but a different father," said Diggle, a faculty member in CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department. "We found that endosperm that does not share the same father as the embryo does not hand over as much food—it appears to be acting less cooperatively." A paper on the subject was published during the week of Jan. 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-authors on the study included Chi-Chih Wu, a CU-Boulder doctoral student in the ecology and evolutionary biology department and Professor William "Ned" Friedman, a professor at Harvard University who helped conduct research on the project while a faculty member at CU-Boulder.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-altruistic.html#jCp

-And here's a rare treat, an aquaponics setup in Hawai'i which is solar powered!

 

-The first urban agriculture technical program in Oregon, at Clackamas Community College, has kicked off its first semester.

-I was excited to see a few news outlets report that plants can hep enhance creative performance. I went to the source for further insight. Turns out what researchers in Germany did do is assert that the color "green" can help us become more creative, not necessarily plants. So a green crayon on top of your computer which you stared at for hours on end would do the trick. And since most plants are green, I guess they would too. But this is more of a story about green, than plants.