Funny Science Article

This is just something I found while looking for more sea plants, it's not really a contributer to our project but I thought it was funny, it talks about how you would get a plant on mars and how to grow it. Anyways more real information coming later.

http://www.physorg.com/news5688.html

Ocean Plants?

I was thinking today about what more to blog about this plant subject, and I had a sudden idea, plants that live under water don't need any more water from rainfall and stuff. So if there were no water, would there still be sea water? My guess would be yes. Knowing that I did a little research on marine plants and what they need to survive, heres a link to a Mad Science post, which discusses how they survive.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/917019997.En.r.html

Water-Wise Weekly

I noticed on this website that I use quite frequently for articles, posts a number of articles written in/by Water-Wise Weekly, now I don't know too much about the group, but from the name I think we can infer that they do discussions about watering plants wisely or anything healthy about water in general. Anyways, this article talked about how plants need water not every once in a while but on a regular basis. Thinking about our situation "What if there were no water from a plants perspective", they cover farms more than plants that dont have too many uses, Why is that? Because humans gather food from their farms and if the farms happen to have no water, than there would be no food for humans, leaving everything a big mess. So what it's trying to say is humans are would also be affected by the lack of water for plants. Other small information they include is proper watering, soil type, etc.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20070804/ai_n19441766

"The Magical Bud"

Plants die without water :: At least most of them doA dried, seemingly dead Star Moss (Tortula ruralis) looks about as lifeless as steel wool. However, seconds after adding only a few drops of water the once brown 'Brillo pad' becomes a lush green mass of individual branches with starlike needles.

Under electron microscopy, dried star moss reveals incredible cellular damage. "And yet it somehow repairs most of this damage within minutes," says Mel Oliver, a molecular biologist at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service laboratory). Oliver envisions lawns, rangelands, and pastures that could do the same.

This was just a clipping from a small web article about how, the majority of plants NEED water, if you notice at the end Oliver envisioned lawns, rangelands, and pastures doing the same thing that this plant they tested did. I think it was time to research more about the plants that will be affected by the change with no water than the plants that won't be as much. So I'm going to dedicate a week to the green plants and do get normal rainfall that need water to survive.

DRay ;D

Chris' Links : The Evaluation

I was browing google reader and I came across a post that Chris Ring had made that consisted of 4-5 links related to our subject, I decided to do a quick scan through them and found that they are very useful. One link, http://www.cwnp.org/adaptations.html, which talks about Arid places which I think means a desert or dry area, where plants were living which were almost practically living without water already and can cope with very high temperatures. Cactus being a plant that can store water also survives in the desert due to that fact. If you want to check out more links from Chris you can visit his blog!

@ cringsblogofmeaninglessness.blogspot.com

Controversial Article

I found this article very interesting, and the quote that it states "Plants don't waste water, People do". I'm assuming people are saying we are wasting too much water on plants according to the article, and professional growers are saying that people don't understand how to water plants properly and they use half as much water as humans do. This article is useful to our project because it's saying that plants don't need as much water as we think they do.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070411/ai_n18996946

Scientists at UCSD

On this site it talks about how scientists from the University of California San Diego have done an experiment to discover how plants conserve their water. They go over certain situations such as droughts and intense rainfall. This site can help us because knowing this information, we can know what would happen in the situation we are researching.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DED/is_12_21/ai_76876212

"A Dry Situation"

This site specifically talks about what would happen to plants as well as wild life during a drought which is similar to not having water for a long period of time. It also compares ways humans live through droughts to way plants and animals live through them, which I thought was very interesting. This is relevant to our project because the topic is very similar and the results on the reaction part of the plants would also be the same.

http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/drought/kids_plants&animals.htm

Both sides of Plant/Water story

Although all living organisms need water, some plants need minimal water such as plants in dry areas that dont get much water to begin with. Other plants need alot of water, such as plants in the rainforest where the rainfall is very high. In this site it talks about that and other things related to plants and water. This will excel my group because it's relevant to plants not needing water, in the case where there were no water, the ones that are used to no or little water, will survive longer and vise versa for the plants that receive alot of rain.

http://www.lesslawn.com/articles/article1062.html

Basis question of plants and water

Why do plants need water? On this site you find out, someone asked the question and was responded with a short paragraph and certain facts by a botanist. I'm trying to get the water stuff quick and I think this will help our project because our question is "What would happen if there were no water? (In a plants perspective).

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-04/956121573.Bt.r.html