Giby any updates on Coconut milk in the growing medium ? thanks' usha di On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:07 PM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear Giby > Yes > I read it in February , PNAS paper > http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/17/1118386109.full.pdf > > was quite exciting > > *BUT what I kept wondering was why would squirrels all those years ago > prefer silene seeds to other more nutritious food ... like larger nuts .. > acorns etc... > may be the tundra gave them not a lot of choice... * > > and there is already a taxonomic fight over the plants regenerated from > these seeds... swedish and norwagian group claims its not the plant the > original researchers claim... > they say its not Silene stenophylla Ledeb. but instead it is of > Silene linnaeana Czerepanov (Lychnis sibirica L.) group . URL for it > is > > http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/E2735.extract?sid=550a652c-f254-4576-b23e-54612803d41f > > > REGARDLESS OF THE TAXONOMIC FIGHT THEY are waging I think the flowers in > the first PNAS paper are very beautiful and its god''s own wonder that the > placental tissue could give rise to new plants after so many millennia. > > *I marveled at the constituents of the growth medium... > > They even had medium number two fortified with coconut milk and I see no > results stated for it... * > > I may just have to write to them and ask > I had forgotten this detail > > thanks for bring it up. > > > Usha di > > > > = > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Giby Kuriakose > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> >> Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen >> years<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17100574> >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17100574 >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Giby >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD >> Assistant Professor >> PG and Research Department of Botany >> Sacred Heart College >> Thevara >> Kochi- 682 013 >> Kerala, India >> Phone - +914844044436 (office) +919947109987 (Mobile) >> visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- Usha di =========== -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
