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Warren Currie 🦠🦐

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The most common on the planet was only discovered in 1986. Prochlorococcus is a genus of picoplankton (~½ micron) bacteria found in the Sargasso Sea by Penny Chisholm, Robert Olsen +, and eventually across all tropical oceans. It accounts for up to half the world's production. Recently, a relationship with heterotrophic was found, reinforcing its importance to the cycle.
phys.org/news/2025-01-abundant

image/jpeg a microscopic photograph of number of roughly spherical dark green organisms. A false color transmission electron microscope image of Prochlorococcus marinus Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT CC0 1.0 Universal.
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Ms. Que Banh

#IndianGhostPipe - #MonotropaUniflora

Herbaceous, #perennial flowering plant.

It can't generate its own chlorophyll & is #parasitic - specifically #mycoheterotroph. Its #symbiotic #fungi hosts are in the #Russulaceae family.

Through the fungal web of #mycorrhizae, #GhostPipe roots sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the #photosynthetic #trees. Clustered node roots of this plant are covered in hairs called #cystidium. The #cystidia found on these roots allow easy attachment to #FungiHyphae. As it's not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments, like understories of forests.

#Indigenous #Cherokee peoples feature the "pipe plant" in some of their #CreationStories. The legend states that the plant was named "Indian pipe" due to a group of chiefs quarreling without resolution, while passing a pipe around during the dispute; the Great Spirit then turned the chiefs into the plant, as they should have smoked the sacred pipe after making peace with each other. The plant is said to grow wherever friends have quarreled.

Native to #PacificNorthwest & a few other areas too.

White Indian ghost pipe perennial plants & flowers, on forest floor.
#NotAFungi#PlantIdentification#PlantLovers
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Researchers Devise #Photosynthesis-Based Energy Source With Negative #CarbonEmissions extracting energy from the photosynthesis process of #algae

Suspended in a specialized solution, the algae forms part of a "micro #photosynthetic power cell" that can actually generate enough energy to power low-power devices like Internet of Things (#IoT) sensors.

Micro Photosynthetic Power Cell Array for Energy Harvesting: Bio-Inspired Modeling, Testing and Verification mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/7/1749

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

#Fossils show that #eukaryotes first acquired #multicellularity 1.63 billion years ago
phys.org/news/2024-01-north-ch

1.63-billion-year-old #multicellular eukaryotes from the #Chuanlinggou Formation science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

"#Qingshania was most likely #photosynthetic #algae, probably belonging to the extinct stem group of #Archaeplastids (a major group consisting of red algae, green algae and land #plants, as well as #glaucophytes)"

Simple dated evolutionary tree of eukaryotes and photosof various fossils connected by lines to points on the tree around the boundary between Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic at around 1 billion years ago
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