Skewed roots! Development matters. The tests I ran for the time course of skewing (and described here) finished. I scanned the plates and had a look. Starting with the two lefty mutants (Fig. 1), the amount of skewing is not constant. For lefty1, the skew angle seems to get progressively more extreme (so the root forms […]

A grindy week. Certainly an exaggeration to say there were a thousand natural shocks—even a dozen is not quantitative; but that’s what it felt like. There was actual Shakespeare tho: Last night, we saw the Birmingham Conservatoire’s production of Much Ado About Nothing; hilarious from curtain to curtain. And there was Liszt. OK, a diszt-claimer–I don’t […]

            Today, Birmingham was definitely a bight zone. Tremendously sunny, not even a passing shower. I seized the day-bright and took my bike north along the canal towpath. I was not dissuaded even when the towpath became a narrow muddy rut. The sun kept shining. I passed under the mighty Galton bridge (Figure 1; hopefully no […]

Last Sunday, I wrote about The case of the vanishing twist. Unless the plates are all contaminated, I’ll get clues tomorrow when I compare mutants grown at 20 and 25ºC. In the same post in passing, I mentioned another mystery: Charlie Anderson and collaborators stain arabidopsis roots nicely with fast scarlet but me and mine […]