Video of a Night Blooming Cereus, taken by Dr. Paul. While this is one post that has little to do with space biology, it is an interesting example of terrestrial plant biology. However, it does connect with why we work with plant in space... we are primarily interested in how plants perceive and respond to their environment, and what molecular tools they use in the process. How do Arabidopsis roots know which direction to grow in the absence of gravity in the spaceflight environment? How does the night-blooming Epiphyllum Hookeri know to wait until around 10:00pm to open to attract its favorite pollinators? Both plants signals cued by light to help guide patterns of growth and development in interesting environments.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Eureka
Video of a Night Blooming Cereus, taken by Dr. Paul. While this is one post that has little to do with space biology, it is an interesting example of terrestrial plant biology. However, it does connect with why we work with plant in space... we are primarily interested in how plants perceive and respond to their environment, and what molecular tools they use in the process. How do Arabidopsis roots know which direction to grow in the absence of gravity in the spaceflight environment? How does the night-blooming Epiphyllum Hookeri know to wait until around 10:00pm to open to attract its favorite pollinators? Both plants signals cued by light to help guide patterns of growth and development in interesting environments.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Keep your eyes on SpaceX CRS 10, aka Spx-10 this weekend! https://spaceflightnow.com/tag/spacex-10/
This launch of APEX-04 takes UF Spaceplants back to pad 39A where the moon shots and space shuttles rocketed into space. Its been a few years since our experiments last left that pad, on STS131
Stay tuned to the twitter feed for any last minute launch updates.
This launch of APEX-04 takes UF Spaceplants back to pad 39A where the moon shots and space shuttles rocketed into space. Its been a few years since our experiments last left that pad, on STS131
Stay tuned to the twitter feed for any last minute launch updates.
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