{"id":142,"date":"2010-04-16T03:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamflanders.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-04-24T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T03:06:37","slug":"seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you will recall my excitement last Summer upon the discovery of a seedpod on my Madagascar Jasmine plant (see my plant page<\/a>). I was recently able to finally harvest the seedpod and collect the seeds, of which there were about 100! They trail light feathery strings, much like dandelions. I tossed a few in the air and allowed them to gently float down to the floor. The tassles could easily be removed from the seeds, which I have stored in a dry tube.<\/p>\n

After orchids, Madagascar Jasmine is my favorite flower – it produces large white waxy flowers that will literally cause your entire room to smell like jasmine for weeks or months. MJ is most commonly used for bridal wreaths and I always wind mine (I have two) around a steel hoop. They are extremely aggressive growers and low maintenance. I have never grown one from seed, so this will certainly be a new adventure for me! I currently have some healthy tomato plants growing along with some lemon herb. My stevia seeds are challenging to grow, but I have had some success getting them to germinate. I would like to be able to grow my own stevia since I use it to sweeten my tea – I drink about 1-2 gallons of tea every day, no joke. Anyway, here are some pictures of the seedpod and seeds…<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tI’ve also just begun transforming my Arabaidopsis<\/i> plants – well technically transforming their meiotic genes in order to produce a transgenic line from the resulting seeds. I will be creating an entire page on my website devoted to my research, when I get some time. I really want to get my paleogenetics website up ASAP.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tAlso, Pride Week has been a huge success so far. The drag show is tonight at 8:00 PM. I will try to film it like I did last year. You can still watch the entire show by visiting http:\/\/www.umaine.edu\/wildestein or my YouTube account. The Rainbow Pride Flag has been waving all week on the campus mall and Jenny Boylan, author of She’s Not There<\/i> and transgender activist and professor at Colby College, spoke to a standing room only yesterday…the room’s capacity was 300 seats! I’ve read her book and she’s written 11 others, including a children’s \/ young adult book dated for release May 11th – I’m excited to read it, having just finished Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol<\/i>. Boylan’s book is titled Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror<\/i>. You can read more about Jenny’s UMaine appearance here<\/a>. She continues to be an inspiration for all of us who believe in being true to ourselves.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tThis also may interest some of you – a video panning of Streptomyces<\/i>, a soil bacteria we studied in my microbiology lab. I used a simple gram stain and my video microscope at 400X to capture the image below.<\/p>\n

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Some of you will recall my excitement last Summer upon the discovery of a seedpod on my Madagascar Jasmine plant (see my plant page). I was recently able to finally harvest the seedpod and collect the seeds, of which there were about 100! They trail light feathery strings, much like dandelions. I tossed a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamflanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}