Well rats! It looks like I'll have to plant my #beets in the #CommunityGarden, since I'm growing #Chard in the home garden. Oh well..

From Washburn's #CommunitySeedBank
@ the #WashburnPublicLibrary

Sponsored by: the Seed Savers Alliance

The #Beetroot Family

"Wind-pollinated members of the Beet Family have very light pollen and need up to 2 to 5 miles for safe distance isolation. Chard and beets are in the same species (Betula vulgaris) and must be isolated from each other or they will cross. Different Beet Family species will not cross-pollinate, so that one beet or chard, one quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), one red (Chenopodium giganteum) and one white (C. alba) lamb's quarters, one orach (Atriplex hortensis) and one spinach (Spinacia oleracea) can all be grown together without danger of crossing.

"You can bag or cage varieties of the same species for isolation, but techniques vary depending on whether the species will self-pollinate or not. Quinoa and lamb's quarters are self-pollinating, so large paper bags can simply be fastened over individual seed heads for protection from cross-pollination. Since quinoa and lamb's quarters produce many small seed heads up and down their stems, mark the protected seed heads so that you can tell them from unprotected ones at harvest time.

"Beets, chard, orach and spinach will not pollinate themselves. These plants need to be caged or bagged in groups so that they can pollinate each other. At least 10 or more plants should be included in each cage or bag for adequate cross-pollination, and to help insure that there are twice as many female as male plants.

"Bags or cages need to be windproof to prevent intermingling of the very light pollens. Shake the plants together within their bags or cages regularly, to help the pollen mix move around inside the cage/bag for good pollination. "

Source:
https://wplcsb.wixsite.com/washburnseedbank/beetroot-family

#SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #CrossPollination #HomeGardening #Pollination

Twinflower (Linnaea borealis) needs cross-pollination to produce seeds, but it often spreads by stolons to form clonal patches—meaning nearby plants may be genetically identical and unable to pollinate each other.

#crosspollination #wildflowers #nature #wildlife #colorado

The Mexican futbol player from #TedLasso in a #StateFarm commercial with #PatrickMahomes is sorta brilliant.

#marketing #advertising #crosspollination

Two illustrations of the importance of cross-pollination in science.

“In any case, plant scientists were routinely thinking about the Krebs cycle in terms of growth, rather than ATP synthesis, long before most cancer biologists began to think that way. We should never forget that ideas in science often come from unexpected quarters. Focusing funding on research into human cancer would miss profound insights deriving from plant scientists.”

— Nick Lane, Transformer 📘

“The why, it turned out, was hiding in the quantum realm — a place geophysicists rarely tread. Likewise, most quantum physicists don't generally tackle the mysteries of geophysical fluids. But Marston was an exception.”

— Katie McCormick, How Quantum Physicists Explained Earth’s Oscillating Weather Patterns 📄

🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quantum-physics-describes-earths-weather-patterns-20230718/

#Science #Ideas #Crosspollination #Transdisciplinary #Reinterpretation

@tanjaslotte & team @Stockholms_univ have solved the long-standing riddle of the supergene that causes efficient #crosspollination in 🌺.

Read more about sequence length variation at the #DNA level 👉 https://bit.ly/3FUzZ0l

#genetics @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605871951582760962

Excerpt from a self-produced video for my track 'Midnite View' which appeared on this years Varial Records compilation 'Cross Pollination'.

#electronicmusic #brokenbeat #varialrecords #crosspollination #bokeh #video