Environment

Palace of winds or Hawamahal of Jaipur

Palace of winds or Hawamahal of Jaipur is one the landmark or monuments. If you climb up the monument you can see the Nahargarh fort or Tiger fort once den or tiger is now a barren hills. Hope some day world heritage site or UNESCO will care for hills also ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 8:54am

Apical dominance in plants

If you look at the Pines sitting in your balcony you will wonder why they growth taller and taller and their apex moves towards the sky in straight line. You can see apical dominance. What provides apical dominance. Plants produce growth regulators on or ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 4:22pm

Plants need some botanists to care

Sitting in a balcony facing a forest in the apartment of our daughter I wonder where the botanists have gone. In our times it was common site to see lots of botanists tracking the woods and documentating the plants. Our teachers like Professor P D Sharma P ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 21 2010 - 4:55pm

Nations rich in vegetaion are rich in health and wealth.

The basic difference which I have seen in rich nations and poor nations (its obvious world wide) is the vegetation, health food habits and attitude. Health and wealth both are there. Its the rich vegetation which supports both. India was a rich country in ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 22 2010 - 8:20am

Climate change and floods.

Earth is a finite structure. Human beings are part of flora and fauna on this earth. Earth was not created for one species only. It was not human species. Millions of plants, animals, insects, birds and billions of microbes make climate and microclimate. M ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 22 2010 - 9:18am

Climate change, tree in your garden and in your farm.

There are several levels of climate change. The tree standing on the hills near my house has suffered from a disease caused due to pollution. Termites are affecting yield. Grass in my garden has gone dry because there was not enough water in taps. The plan ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 22 2010 - 1:24pm

Environment protection laws and resposibilities

To protect human life there are laws in every corner of the world. Plant life is cheap. One should undersand if plants are gone entire human population will be gone. When plant life is to be protected the environmental laws are new to the law makers. When ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 22 2010 - 6:48pm

Biodiversity conservation is a separate issue

Perhaps the botanists are too week to put their case forward as no interest groups support their voice while environmentalist are supported by different lobbies. The voice of botanists are not heard Petrochemicals have big money and so do the environmental ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2010 - 6:17am

Biodiversity

Nature has well knit system of biodiversity. Microbes that thrive on dead organic matter and decompose it to its elements are a sort of sanitary inspectors of nature. Dead animals, plants, organic food remains are acted upon by such microbes. Due to their ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2010 - 8:15am

Sodium exclusion

Salt resistant plants are able to exclude Na+ in a selective manner from their plasma membrane during initial phase of salinity which is encountered during first phase. Cell membranes are selectively permeable and can undertake transport of ions against th ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 24 2010 - 5:16am