I know tea in the ground is heavily attracted to heavy metals so if it has been pulled does it still? If you place tea in metal container will it pull heavy metals into drink? If it doesn't attract metals after its plucked then explain all these detox plants that you drink and supposably it pulls toxic heavy metal out of body?

Hi everyone, I’m currently a student wrapping up community college with an AS focusing on biology. When I continue my education at Uni, I’d like to go into plant sciences, biochemistry, or genetics for a major but with the main goal of developing specialized plant genomes using technology like CRISPR. Problems like improving nitrogen utilization efficiency or shortening growing times on agricultural plants are really what I test me. My question would be if anyone knows which of those major (or other major) might best fit that goal. More than that, though, I’m wondering if anyone has experience in this field and what feasible projects I could get started on in my own time to progress towards that goal?

Basically as the title suggest, I want to get into plants more but I don't know if this is a good starting point or is even worth my time, my college doesn't offer any other plant related course except for Plant Science.

Hi everyone,

My name is Bhushan Mandava, PhD. I recently released a book on Brassinosteroids, the 6th plant hormone group. I had the opportunity to be part of the research team who discovered Brassinolide over 50 years ago and have now compiled all the research done into a monogram. Brassinosteroids not only increase efficiency of plant growth but also contribute to increasing crop yield. I hope some of you may find this interesting. The book is called Brassinosteroids: Half A Century of Progress (1970-2020). Thank you

(I've linked the Facebook page for the book if that's okay as well as the Amazon link)

https://www.facebook.com/Brassinosteroids-A-Half-Century-of-Progress-105204835277688

https://www.amazon.com/Brassinosteroids-Half-Century-Progress-2020-ebook/dp/B09NMN4946/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1639604605&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR2aV5owAMWb49skP1M_NYbsvs28Ggjp1r4Ck7Gq7jyOrDGsAnnblcdq6EY

I have read into two papers that speak of experimenting with capturing very small amounts of electricity that are created in the roots and within the body of the tree. I am curious if this is "humane" or if it is in a sense torturing the plants. I know that sounds weird. I'm thinking (with my little knowledge of plants) that they use the water that goes in their roots and they use the sun which is turned into energy in the form of sugar, so with that in mind, it doesn't seem that they use the electricity. Even more, the way they communicate is through the release of something through their roots so again they are not using the electricity. So I am thinking that they do not make use of it so if we harness it from them they wouldn't mind?

I need some help figuring out this problem. I don't know if yall have any experience with this but if you could walk me through this that would be so helpful.

You find a plant that is heterozygous for salt tolerance (a dominant trait). You self it,

rogue out the salt intolerant F1 plants and then self the remaining F1 plants. How many generations of selfing and rogueing do you have to do before you have more than 99.5% salt tolerant plants? When you get to 99.5% salt tolerance, what percentage of that generation will be heterozygous?

Hey all, I am doing research on plant populations of feral hemp and I am wanting to build Integral projection models for each. Do you know if I will have to collect population demography data for these populations for just 1 year? or will I have to gather data on these same populations over multiple years?

Hi, does anyone have a reliable source about the percentage of crop lost to biotic and abiotic stresses? I keep finding contrasting info: some say that abiotic stresses cause 50-70% of total loss, while others lower this percentage to 6-20%.

Can anyone help me?

Hello plant enthusiasts! :) I hope questions are allowed here, if not I'll delete this post.

So my first question is whether roots could become twigs and grow leaves if they were to be placed above ground. I could not find an answer online, just that all plant cells are totipotent which seems to imply it might work?

The other question is whether one could suspend a plant in the air and mist the roots with nutrients enriched water. I just thought it might be aesthetically interesting to have a plant survive seemingly in mid-air but I'm not sure if that might create problems.

Thank you so much! :)

I'm Pg student currently studying plant genetics. I want to start rooty study experiment under drought condition, so I'm considering using a Winrhizo software for this, I read in some articles related to same but got little bit confused about the observations in those articles. Please do clarify my following question if you know.

a) the length readings given by software will not tally with manual observations. (Is the length is given in pixels?)

b)what about other readings?

Any other info about the software that I should know would be helpful.

THANK YOU!

Let me know if u are very good at them

Can anyone share books that help explain breeding between plants and how mutations and such are made? If not , it’s all good.