http://sarcozona.org/2007/12/03/walls-of-glass/ botany, shoes, books, and justice Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://sarcozona.org/2007/12/03/walls-of-glass/#comment-123 Berry Go Round #1 « Seeds Aside Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:10:22 +0000 http://sarcozona.org/2007/12/03/walls-of-glass/#comment-123 [...] Mosses had their share of existence in the blogosphere these weeks. Some species do make a winter cold meiosis. But you still need some light to have them grow, as is explained at Moss Plants And More, and when it has everything needed (like in a tropical green paradise), it will readily grow on leaves. But let’s not forget about other wonder plants like ferns or horsetails… You may not be obcessed about fern gametophytes, but here it is made sexy, and with cool pictures (part 1, part 2). Going our way, it strikes me as a recent scientific litterature habit to oppose in natura and in silico. At Gravity’s Rainbow, you’ll fuse both and learn about some natural silica from horsetails. [...] [...] Mosses had their share of existence in the blogosphere these weeks. Some species do make a winter cold meiosis. But you still need some light to have them grow, as is explained at Moss Plants And More, and when it has everything needed (like in a tropical green paradise), it will readily grow on leaves. But let’s not forget about other wonder plants like ferns or horsetails… You may not be obcessed about fern gametophytes, but here it is made sexy, and with cool pictures (part 1, part 2). Going our way, it strikes me as a recent scientific litterature habit to oppose in natura and in silico. At Gravity’s Rainbow, you’ll fuse both and learn about some natural silica from horsetails. [...]

]]> http://sarcozona.org/2007/12/03/walls-of-glass/#comment-97 gravity’s rainbow » Walls of glass Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:05:21 +0000 http://sarcozona.org/2007/12/03/walls-of-glass/#comment-97 [...] Equisetum aren’t the only organisms that use silica in their cell walls. Algae in the phylum Chrysophyta (golden-brown algae) use it to make “seeds.” Golden-brown algae are often found in ponds and shallow lakes that freeze from top to bottom in the winter. How is the poor little alga going to eat or swim around in a block of ice? It cannot! This could lead to a huge tragedy involving many many dead algae. But golden-brown algae just pack up all the important parts into an itsy bitsy glass box (called a statospore), snuggle up in the muddy pond bottom, and wait until the ice melts. [...] [...] Equisetum aren’t the only organisms that use silica in their cell walls. Algae in the phylum Chrysophyta (golden-brown algae) use it to make “seeds.” Golden-brown algae are often found in ponds and shallow lakes that freeze from top to bottom in the winter. How is the poor little alga going to eat or swim around in a block of ice? It cannot! This could lead to a huge tragedy involving many many dead algae. But golden-brown algae just pack up all the important parts into an itsy bitsy glass box (called a statospore), snuggle up in the muddy pond bottom, and wait until the ice melts. [...]

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