Natural farming means no work, no fertiliser, no pesticides, no tools, no plastics, no tilling, no weeding, no watering... There is only one food system - the ecosystem.
Here #wildgarlic and some #woodears. I will turn the wild garlic into a pesto for grass #Poaceae berries (aka wheat pasta).
Photo of the experimental setup used to evaluate the comparative response to herbivory across the Brachypodium species complex. The picture was taken during the feeding experiment, in which the authors placed one locust on multiple lines of diploid Brachypodium distachyon, B. stacei, and B. hybridum allopolyploid. Locusts were allowed to feed for 48 h, after which damage and fitness were evaluated.
Drivers of insect #herbivory resistance & tolerance to plant damage in the #Brachypodium distachyon species complex
New #AJB research by Antonio Manzaneda, Luisa Martínez, Ana Fernández-Ocaña, Teresa Salido & Pedro Rey
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #polyploidy #Poaceae
Poaceae in the phylogenetic tree of life
The #Poaceae family is called “ #Süssgräser ” in German. They have been our source of #sugar and #carbohydrates for over 10’000 years, and basis of the #Neolithic Revolution: rice, maize, wheat, millet, barley… And later #sugarcane ,, with 2025.8 Megatons of harvested biomass per year!
Exploring the dominant #endophytic #pleosporalean fungi in #Poaceae plants: #taxonomic novelties within the suborder #Massarineae
doi.org/10.1080/2150...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Morning good folk of BSky Today we bring an episode in the 5 Minute Family series 3 Families in 5 min !!!! Aim is to confidently distinguish between a #sedge #cyproceae #rush#juncaceae & #grass #poaceae before keying join me on the channel & become a #grass detective youtu.be/yI6bTorIQwI
Annotated botanical illustration of Yorkshire #Holcus lanatus done #grass in #watercolor, cut to white showing an inflorescence in flower and another still in the grass sheath
Botanical illustration in #watercolour of Carpet grass #Anoxopus compressus showing the plant in flower, the pinkish tiller with roots, and the broad glaucous leaves along with a close up of a seed
Botanical illustration of the False oat grass #Arrhentherium elatius showing tow inflorescence, one still in the grass sheath and the other fully own revealing spikelets with awns. The pink nodes and swollen yellowish root nodes are also shown #botany #naturalscienceillustration #ilovegrass #grassillustration #drawinggrasses
The third of my workshops next year is a day long session drawing and learning about grasses. Click on the link to book:
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le...
#grasses #botanicalillustration #poaceae #graminaceae #drawinggrass #teaching #botany
"Be like bamboo. The higher you grow, the deeper you bow." ~ Chinese proverb
#Photography #Nature #Botanical #Bambusoideae #Poaceae #Grass #FastestGrowingPlant
#Kastiku (Kastik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
#BunchGrass of the #Poaceae family, genus #Calamagrostis, of which at least 5 varieties native to Estonia: #jäneskastik, wood small-reed or bushgrass (lit. hare’s bunch grass), #CalamagrostisEpigeios; #metskastik (lit. woodland bunch grass), #CArundinacea
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Phenology of rust fungi (Pucciniales) during mild winters – high temporal flexibility of spore generations
#fungi
#Pucciniales
#Bioticinteractions
#Changingenvironment
#Climatechange
#Globalchange
#Lifecycles
#Pathogens
#Phenologyofrustfungi
#Poaceae
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SIF
First report of Nigrospora humicola (Apiosporaceae, Xylariales) on Phragmites plant from North Asia.
Details: maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/sif...
#Poaceae #Reed #Fungi #Morphology #Phylogeny
Experimental design and haustoria size classes. (A) Experimental design showing species grown alone (C, L or P) or paired (C+L and C+P), and (B) branched stem for Castilleja exserta growing adjacent Nasella lepida.
#Nitrogen enrichment reduces parasitism in an annual hemiparasite
New #AJB researc by Jasmine Taite & Paul Nabity
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#plantscience #climatechange #Poaceae #pollution #ecology
Distribution of extant Leptaspis and Scrotochloa plotted on a map of modern ecoregions. Green areas indicate tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions. Circles indicate Leptaspis and triangles indicate Scrotochloa. Locations of the early Miocene Mush Valley (Ethiopia) and middle Miocene Kabarsero (Tugen Hills, Kenya) fossil sites are indicated by blue stars.
New evidence of Miocene forest #grasses from #Ethiopia & #Kenya: Implications for biogeography, #evolution & paleoecology
New #AJB research by Bonnie Jacobs, Alice Novello, Caroline Strömberg, Ellen Currano, et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #paleobotany #Poaceae
A photo I took yesterday of long-flowered Veldt grass in flower. The flowers are long and thin and green with pink bracts. For a full-res version of this, go to https://inaturalist.nz/observations/310728311
A screenshot from iNaturalist of the current distribution of long-flowered Veldt grass in New Zealand. It's only at one small site in Christchurch city in the South Island and a small area in Whanganui in the North Island. This is how weeds get started.
Here's a new weed to watch out for in NZ: long-flowered Veldt grass, Ehrharta longiflora.
I found one in flower yesterday. It's an annual relative of the now widespread perennial Veldt grass, Ehrharta erecta, which the NZ Plant Conservation several years ago […]
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What do the following animals eat the most?
🧘 Humans
🦬 Bisons
🐄 Cows
🐑 Sheep
🐐 Goats
🐓 Chickens
🐖 Pigs
Grass.
We all compete for the same food. Sorghum (100% feed), corn (80%), wheat (65%), rice, oats, barley and millets are all the same grass family and most is wasted on feed. #Poaceae
POACEAE PAGENT 💚👑
Who is the best grass?
● 🌽CORN🍿
● 🍚RICE🍙
● 🎋BAMBOO👕
● 🌾WHEAT🍞
(5th party votes will not be counted. Choose a side! Vote ends Friday)
#poaceae #botany #grass #grasses #scicomm #poll #corn #rice #bamboo #wheat
A close-up of a section of bamboo that is yellow in color with green vertical stripes. Additional stalks can be seen and more clusters are visible in the background.
A cluster of bamboo spotted on the Big Island, Hawaii 🌱
#Hawaii #Plants #Grass #Poaceae #AbstractAug #Lines #Photography #Yellow
Marian Lea presents a slide showing the layout of a NEON site.
Starting off the final day at #Botany2025 with an analysis of post-fire change in vegetation at National Ecological Observatory Network #NEON sites. #Rosaceae and #Poaceae showed biggest changes with big gains for Bromus tectorum and Vulpia spp.
Triodia stenostachya
Poaceae
Castle Hill, Townsville
Queensland Australia
#TriodiaStenostachya #Poaceae #PorcupineGrass #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky
A collage of two photos: The left panel shows bamboo with plentiful foliage. The right panel shows the same bamboo with very sparse foliage and leafless culms. Photos by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Who hasn’t heard of monocarpy among bamboos? Responding to unknown environmental cues, all the stems in the stand flower. In Duke Gardens in late 2023, Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bori’ flowered & slowly (over many months) died. #Poaceae #monocarpy #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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