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the radical botanical is a science communication blog: giving a voice to intersectional scientists, sharing plant science, and discussing disability. created and curated by phd student emily may armstrong.

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I've been pushing myself to my physical limits this past two weeks. Moving flats & handling a massively energy intensive hydroponics & ion quantification experiment has been a bit of a challenge for my body. Right now I'm working on finishing off an impact in 60 seconds video (another post to come soon!), organising my trip to Boston/NYC, and planning my disability outreach lightning talk. I also need to copy edit an article and plan a piece I'm submitting to huffpost... There's going on, but I've got a handle on it (I hope!). 🌿 Here's a photo of some hydroponically grown #arabidopsis I'm stressing out with salt, to find out which genes are responsible for controlling salt stress response. 🌵 ALSO WOW, WHEN DID I GET TO >900 FOLLOWERS? can we crank it to beyond 1000 for my birthday on the 7th of May? 💕💫🎉💖🌱 #science #research #biology #outreach #plantscience #plantbiology #plants #instaplant #disabilitylife #communication #genetics #plantgrowth #bioscience #green

I've been moving flat this week! I spent two years in my last place which was lovely, but definitely time to move on. Now I'm 5 mins from the lab in a beautiful old tenement. Here's 1/4 of my house plant collection ready for moving! // I've got a huge day of hydroponics transfer on no sleep, so check my story for updates. #plantscience #instabio #instaplant #biology #research #houseplants #houseplantsofinstagram #plantgang #oxalis #maranta #pilea

fresh weights! this week I'm doing high throughput large scale quantitative phenotyping. I've been growing plants in hydroponics for 3 weeks, and I stressed ½ of them with salt. Now, I'm weighing the shoot and root systems of three different genotypes (two are knockout mutants) to compare how they respond to salt stress. Then, I'll calculate #sodium ion accumulation in the shoot using flame #spectometry and determine if my #genes of interest are required for tissue specific responses to salt stress 🌱🌿🌾. #plantscience #plantbiology #plants #instaplant #biology #research #researcher #science #salt #botany #genetics #phenotype #growth #assay #scienceblogger #scientistswhoselfie #arabidopsis #epigenetics

slow mo rifampicin addition to some luria broth - added my agro starter culture for floral dipping tomorrow 🌱💪 #antibiotic #research #biology #genetics #plantscience #botany

massive big fat apologies for my lack of posts recently; 1.5 feet of snow, badly timed flu, flat hunting, and a mountain of work has taken priority. I've got a busy week ahead with hydroponics, chromatin-immumoprecipitation, qPCR and quantitative phenotyping. im also finishing off an article on plant based biomaterials for the biochemist blog. interested? stay tuned & send over your questions for me to answer 💪💕🌱❄️🤧 // #phd #plantscience #research #biology #snow #glasgow

as the days are getting longer in Glasgow, our plants start to notice. plants basically take winter off, there's not enough light for them to harvest so they don't invest energy in growing. I found this guy at the side of a road 2 years ago, and it's finally woken up. This extreme lean towards a light source is an example of "#phototropism", where a #plant optimises its shoot architecture to get as close to the available light as possible, getting all the light energy it needs to stay alive. if you notice your houseplants starting to look a bit stretched, (etiolated), move them closer to a light source and see what works 🌱🌵☀️🌻 #plantscience #biology #genetics #science

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