ljmacphee | December 26, 2007
Carnivorous plants are some of my favorite plants. I’ve a Nepethenes who has pitchers big enough to catch small rodents, lizards and some of the Texas sized bugs we have down here. It was thought the trap was enough now we know they slime their prey as well.
. . . Since Charles Darwin’s [...]
ljmacphee | December 24, 2007
A University of Virginia study, published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that plants grown in the same setting as their maternal plant performed almost 3.5 times better than those raised in a different environment - indicating that maternal plants give cues to their offspring that help them adapt to their [...]
ljmacphee | December 14, 2007
Many successful robots are based on insects, now at the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology investigators are looking into plant intelligence in the hope it too will give us insight into ways to better build robots and smart systems.
SESTO FIORENTINO, Italy — Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn’t easy being green: He runs the world’s [...]
