Happy #AppleDay & #NationalAppleMonth ! Enjoy Domestication—Breeding Journey of modern #Apples . It is a quick draft with simplified details! #GeneticDiversity #CropWildRelatives Credits: KhanLab at Cornell

From carbon dioxide to starch—no plants required: Researchers have developed a novel, cell-free method of synthesizing starch from CO2 and hydrogen using a combination of chemical catalysts and a carefully selected set of enzymes in a cell-free approach. fcld.ly/tdz3er4

Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter #cactus? You can usually identify these by examining the shape of their leaves, and to some extent by when they flower: Thanksgiving cactus November and early December, Christmas cactus mid to late December, Easter cactus April.

Calling all undergrads! The website for our Plant Health Fellows internship program is up. Get paid to study plant interactions with pests, pathogens, beneficials, or contaminants! Novices/underclassmen welcome, apply by February 25th: southernct.edu/plant-health-f…

Venation and pigmentation going wild on the inner walls of this #Sarracenia alata #PitcherPlant pitfall trap leaf.. Students are dissecting & scanning traps to explore variation in coloration and insect prey capture- mesmerizing images an incidental treat! #CarnivorousPlant

Don’t miss our ‘Coffee Break Series’ guest speaker Andrew, founder of Blackrock Composting Co! Join us Thursday, 11/18 from 6-7 for an engaging and resourceful talk!

Connecticut's greenhouse industry generating millions of dollars, creating thousands of jobs wtnh.com/video/connecti…

Hybrids are usually produced by cross pollination between two species within the same genus. Shown is Gasteraloe "Royal Highness" an intergeneric hybrid produced by cross pollinating two species from different genera, Gasteria and Aloe. Nice, easy to grow succulent.

•Controls are not boring. •Controls are not for the reviewers. •Controls are not for inexperienced students who make mistakes. •Controls are essential to any scientific experiment. •Controls are essential to distinguishing between technical and methodological failures.

Please encourage your students to apply for the Plant Health Fellows Program by February 25! Paid summer research in New Haven in micro, chem, entomology, and other topics related to plant health. Eboni Traverso Ethan southernct.edu/plant-health-f… (Reposted with alt text)

Here's one of several visual guides to botanical terms, for a blog post I'm working on. I'd like to do a few blog 'glossaries' of palaeobotanical terms to help non -palaeobotanists, so lemme know what sort of things you'd like to see in them! #palaeobotany #botany #ferns #leaves

The Plant Health Fellows Undergraduate Summer Internship Program is accepting applications for 2023. The deadline is Feb 24th southernct.edu/plant-health-f…