{"id":584,"date":"2021-11-26T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/?p=584"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:55:23","slug":"babies-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Babies in the lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a lovely surprise to walk into our tropical growth chamber today and find that the whole lot of <em>Nepenthes gracilis<\/em> seeds that <a href=\"https:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/people\/oonah-lessware\/\">Oona<\/a> sowed out in September have germinated! Look at those perfect little baby pitcher plants:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-585\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanical-ecology-lab.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211126_1259201812-1024x950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211126_1259201812-1024x950.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211126_1259201812-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211126_1259201812-768x713.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211126_1259201812-1536x1426.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211126_1259201812.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What totally blew my mind was the realisation that the first proper leaf (after the cotyledons) that these tiny plants make is\u00a0 a pitcher! A mere 2 mm tall, what do these miniature traps capture, and how? Also fascinating to see how different to &#8216;normal&#8217;, later stage pitchers these look!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanical-ecology-lab.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211203_160558219-897x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211203_160558219-897x1024.jpg 897w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211203_160558219-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211203_160558219-768x877.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211203_160558219-1346x1536.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/PXL_20211203_160558219.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch this space for some exciting baby pitcher research to follow soon&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a lovely surprise to walk into our tropical growth chamber today and find that the whole lot of Nepenthes&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=584\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babies in the lab!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}