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 ====PARN Project: Human-plant communication - research diary====
 Lionel
+===Sunday 18/12/2011===
+  * [[https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=16983 | Król E., Dziubińska H., and Trębacz K. (2010) What do plants need action potentials for?]] (Open Acess)\\
+A very nice text on the question, nice to read and very complete. History, roles, pathways of transmissions, measure. 26 p.\\
+===Tuesday 01/11/2011===
+  * Writing a report
+===Fiday 28/10/2011===
+  * Writing a report
+===Friday 14/10/2011===
+  * Check for the result of the plant root experiment. The root has stopped to grow before entering the channel. Thinking about what to do now.
+  * Reading an article about plant-microbe interaction\\
+[[http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v6/n1/pdf/msb201067.pdf| Goffin et al (2010) Understanding the physiology of Lactobacillus plantarum at zero growth]] (open access). In situations of low substrate availability, //Lactobacillus plantarum// bacteria (which often grows on plants) syhthetize plant hormones to 'tell' the plant to produce certain nutrients they need. Furthermore, //L. plantarum// also adapts its own metabolism to make use of those vegetal nutients.\\
+  * short research discussion with Nik & Maja
+===Tuesday 27/09/2011===
+  * Making pictures and a libarynth page about the [[plant_roots_experiment|plant root experiment]].
+===Monday 26/09/2011===
+  * Finding a technical solution to connect the glass pipes to the plexiglas plate, in a watertight way. The experimental device is ready for a first test. A seed of cress is inserted in the 'input'.
+===Thursday 22/09/2011===
+  * Buying some material and testing different systems to ensure the watertightness of the fluidics device for the plant root experiment.
+  * Browsing through the non-scientific web about 'communication with plants'.
+===Monday 19/09/2011===
+  * Reading the //book of abstracts// from the 1st symposium on Plant Neurobiology ([[http://www.plantbehavior.org/files/Symposia_BookofAbstracts.pdf|pdf file]] freely downloadable). An nice collection of scientific stories about plant communication.
+===Friday & Saturday 16-17/09/2011===
+(Symposium on EEG & Art, iMAL)
+===Thursday 15/09/2011===
+(arrival Kiran)
+===Tuesday 13/09/2011===
+  * bending of tiny glasspipes with heat, for the plant root experiment
+===Friday 09/09/2011===
+  * Grooving of the plexiglas plate at timelab, Gent
+===Thursday 08/09/2011===
+  * buying transparent polymer plates
+  * .dxf files for the patterns of the 'microfluidics' channels.
+===Wednesday 07/09/2011===
+  * Short research meeting with Maja and Nik\\
+  * Fist draft for a 'root-on-a-chip' design\\
+===Tuesday 06/09/2011===
+  * Analyse of the 20 first results a Google search about "communication avec les plantes"\\
+° To see what is associated with that concept in the web-based popular culture.\\
+° Identifying the main ideas that come repeatedly.\\
+  * Update of the page about [[diy_biology|DIY biology]]\\
+===Friday 02/09/2011===
+(Weekly meeting with FoAM's members)
+===Thursday 01/09/2011===
+  * Some information about Arduino\\
+  * Update of the page about [[plant_neurobiology|plant neurobiology]]\\
+===Wednesday 31/08/2011===
+Meeting with Meredith L. Patterson\\
+===Monday 29/08/2011===
+  * Create a libarynth page with links about [[diy_biology|DIY biology]]\\
+===Friday 26/08/2011===
+  * Order seeds of Mimosa pudica (on www.graines.be)\\
+  * Freely downloadable publications about ant-plant mutualism, on the [[http://www.bashanfoundation.org/heil/heilpub.html|webpage of the biologist Martin Heil]]\\
+  * Wikipedia search: [[w>Myrmecophily]]
+===Thursday 25/08/2011===
+  * Rapid research about interactions beween plants and animals/microbes/plants.\\
+  * Prospective thoughts about possible (or less possible) experiments.\\
 ===Tuesday 23/08/2011===
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   * Visit at the VUB library to identify interesting reference books about plant physiology:\\
-° //Biology of Plants, 7th edition (2005) //, P. Raven, R. Evert, S. Eichhorn - W. H. Freeman & co Publishers\\
+° //Biology of Plants, 7th edition// (2005), P. Raven, R. Evert, S. Eichhorn - W. H. Freeman & co Publishers\\
 Very general and pedagogic, lot of pictures. Botany, histology, a bit of molecular biology. Reader-friendly, nice to browse randomly (essays, topics, etc.). But: ugly hardcover, and 7th edition seems to be the last one.\\
-° //Plant physiology, 4th edition//, L. Taiz & E. Zeiger - Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers\\
+° //Plant physiology, 4th edition// (2006), L. Taiz & E. Zeiger - Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers\\
-More experiment-oriented. A lot about plant development and metabolic pathways. Graphs, molecular structures.\\
+More experiment-oriented. A lot about plant development and metabolic pathways. Graphs, molecular structures. 5th edition released in 2010.\\
-° //Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants//, B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, R. Jones - American Society of Plant Physiologists\\
+° //Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants// (2009), B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, R. Jones - American Society of Plant Physiologists\\
-Very good and exhaustive reference book. Very molecular-, protein- and biochemistry-oriented.\\
+Very good and exhaustive reference book. Very molecular-, protein- and biochemistry-oriented. Big: 1367 pages!\\
+===Friday 19/08/2011===
+  * Web search about the use of plants action potentials in artistic installations:
+° [[http://ivanhenriques.wordpress.com/|Ivan Henrique - 'Jurema Action Plant']]\\
+° [[http://www.scenocosme.com/phonofolium.htm|Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt - 'Phonolium']]\\
+  * Visit at iMAL
 ===Thursday 18/08/2011===
-Further reading of previously mentioned articles and books
+  * Further reading of previously mentioned articles and books\\
 ===Wednesday 17/08/2011===