My Adventures as a Turfgrass Researcher

Hello! I signed myself onto a Ph.D. program in Plant Biology and have been working in a turfgrass lab for quite some time now. It is an adventure, but because it is so much fun, I will share it with all of you!

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The actual smell of rain comes from plants. When plants are in drought they produce oils in replacement for waters. When the time comes and it finally starts raining the plants get their needed water and they release these oils in the air and the smell of that oil is what we call smell of rain

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Today, one of the professors I TA for completely forgot my name while she was talking to our students. She actually began stammering when trying to think of it, and they had to help her remember. Yeah, that’s okay and all, seeing as I help her instruct for at least 15 hours a week. My name doesn’t matter anyway, right?

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So scared of these enzyme extracts......

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Pyromorphite

Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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Crystal Violet is fucking gorgeous

[creepingbentgrass]

Yes but I’m so tired of it!

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I’m sorry… but you can always rant to me about it! ^^

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Really?!? Nobody is ever so kind ;v;

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Crystal Violet is fucking gorgeous

[creepingbentgrass]

Yes but I'm so tired of it!

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I gave a seminar yesterday, and when I transferred my file over to my lecturer’s computer, he told me some of the figures became corrupted. Lo and behold, I’m 13 minutes into my speech, and my one slide has just one thing on it - a figure that should have been a graph but just looked like that Missingno glitch Pokemon instead. I wanted to point it out, but decorum….Decorum. Then, right as I finished up, I generated a shit ton of interest and got twenty minutes of questions. When the last person finished asking, I said, “Anyone else?” and someone let out the longest fart ever.

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PhDividing corrections between TA’s

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27.01.16 // I’m 5 months into my PhD. Five. Marking this event by collecting wheat inflorescence 👀

[creepingbentgrass]

I'm five months in as well!! Good luck!

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This post is relatable for me

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He gon get grass stains

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Me at work every day

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13 days after transplanting, and we're looking pretty good.

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Albrecht Dürer Great Piece of Turf

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First ever flower grown in space. [via]

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“There’s no way you’ll have the time to do all those procedures tomorrow!”

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My new semester is going to start on Tuesday, and I will get to trim my little bentgrass babies again, teach three new classrooms of students in biotechnology labs, and learn some plant breeding. Bring it on!!!