What in the World is That?
Science has very specific language. Many professions have very specific words. The finance, construction, and environmental industries all do as well. Yet sometimes when I speak people express frustration about science is not understandable? It probably feels like my frustrations and lack of enthusiasm to learn about engines or maintaining my vehicle.
Well here’s a guy that has really stepped out and helped me see some interesting ways to describe processes. He is very creative and his books are proving to be vastly informative. This book "Teaming With Bacteria", looks at at the plants relationship with soil bacteria and fungi. The Rhizophagy Cycle is a relationship controlled by the plants. Here is a brief synopsis using the authors metaphors.
Many plants are farming bacteria. That’s right, I said farming bacteria. They are enveloping them in their growing, stretching (meristem) root cells, then “shear” off there outer cell walls like shearing sheep. The plant consumes the nutrients from the bacterial cell walls. The bacteria move between the cells of the roots in the plasma for a period of time. It is about a two day processing. Then the bacteria produce a plant hormone that forms a root hair and delivers the “shell-less” or “Sheared” bacteria back into the surrounding soils to “Graze”. They are not dead. They live to graze and serve the plant notorious compounds and minerals again. I talked about Dr. Elaine Ingham in a prior blog post. Lowenfels books build on her work and has brought the science a little farther along for public understanding of the plant and microbe interaction.
This is it for the week. Back to my studies and designs.
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