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Tag: botany

July 12, 2012

Quite possibly the most complicated (and therefore awesome) Venn Diagram ever!

The figure legend reads:

Figure 4: Six-way Venn diagram showing the distribution of shared gene families (sequence clusters) among M. acuminata, P. dactylifera, Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa, Sorghum bicolor and Brachypodium distachyon genomes.

In case it wasn’t obvious, M. acuminata is the banana plant.

Full paper on the draft genomic sequence of the banana, and the info this divulged regarding its evolution is available for free downloading at Nature.

REF: The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants. Angélique D’Hont, France Denoeud, et al. Nature (2012) doi:10.1038 / nature11241 (published online July 11, 2012)

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July 10, 2012

Tree Leaning. Better than planking?

By Paul Octavious, via Colossal

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June 28, 2012

A Matter of Taste: wonderful photos of food manipulated to look like fashion.

By Fulvio Bonavia.

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June 27, 2012

I miss being a tree

From failblog.com

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June 22, 2012

How to tell the birds from the flowers. A manual of flornithology for beginners. #awesome

These pages from Robert W. Wood’s 1907 quirky little manual, How to tell the birds from the flowers. A manual of flornithology for beginners are pretty delightful. You can take a look at the whole thing at the California Digital Library.

Hat tip to Futility Closet for bringing it to my attention.

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June 19, 2012

I WANT this book! The Golden Book of Biology illustrated by Charley Harper.

Alas, out of print and (for obvious reasons) a collector’s item.

(Click on the images for larger versions)

Pictures by Charley Harper.

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June 16, 2012

Epic science illustration by Colin Johnson.

By Colin Johnson, via Fresh Photons.

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April 24, 2012

Star Wars: Botany edition

And there’s much more here from Christopher Niemann from the NYT Abstract City Blog.

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April 11, 2012

Photosynthesis: The Graphic Novel…

If that’s not cool enough, check out this page from the comic, which highlights the Calvin Cycle!

Anyway, read the whole wonderful thing here.

By Jay Hosler.

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February 28, 2012

Environmental cut images in leaves, produced for environmental campaign.

From Plant for the Planet via thisiscolossal.

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February 22, 2012

The effects of music on plant growth and health: The Bob Dylan versus Neil Young experiment.

That would be exposure to Neil Young on the right. Curious to see what would happen if a plant was exposed to Justin Bieber… (This image might be fun for a botany or music/neuroscience related slide).

Art piece by Tony Romano, 2007.

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November 30, 2011

Inorganic Flora: Amazing botanical art by Macoto Murayama

“the creation of each design is a multistep and multimedia process. murayama begins with research and dissection of botanical specimens, photographing and sketching their parts. he then composes a 3D model in 3DS max, modifying individual elements in photoshop and matting the completed diagram in illustrator with captions and indication of scale.”

Via designboom.

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November 24, 2011

AWESOME! The Linnaeus Card!

Tell me this isn’t freakin’ awesome!

Via the Phylo Game. See other cards here.

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November 11, 2011

Beautiful poppy mandala. #remember

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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This is specifically an Oriental Poppy (Papaver orientale). Image by David J. Bookbinder.

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September 22, 2011

Tree made with blood vessels.

By boojumsan via Flickr

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