Friday, October 18, 2024

CUBE home lab project: Chronobiology seasonomics in Pongamia pinnata through anthrocentric observations on nature's seasonal experiments

Write up begins on March 5, 2024


Introduction : New leaves on old trees can be puzzling to humans who never get to see their own new cells emerging from their bodies seasonally and this CUBE home lab observer's intrigue was piqued on noticing new leaves in the same old tree that he figured was the same old pongamia pinnata and was further surprised by another pongamia standing next to it with a withered old look in contrast to the fresh one noticed. 


Methods :


Day:1 


Randomized cluster sampling from trees of pongamia pinnata and then adding on a whim, glyricidia sepium and Dalbergia Sissoo while on the way to a morning bus-stop from Inaamguda, Hyderabad to Narketpally, Nalgonda 


Control: 3 


Date of observation :5/03/2024


Time of observation : 7:00 AM 


Results (Expected outcomes) :


Different trees of the same species have different stages of leaves growing in different individual trees as well as the same individual tree as evidenced by the captured data in images. Click here in the facebook portfolio to access all the images : 


Discussion : More research is needed regarding the chronobiology seasonomic changes in various trees as earlier initiated in CUBE labs with mangifera Indica here:  https://metastudio.org/t/seasonomics-mango-mapping-2021/6798

Detailed understanding of physiology will enable us to move easier into the realms of pathology as also illustrated here by CUBE labs with the same pongamia pinnata plant:  https://smallscience.hbcse.tifr.res.in/pongam-puzzles/

Interesting correlations and analogies  can be drawn into the ontologic realm of competency based education here as cells, be it that of leaves or neurons growing at different times in the same intra as well as interspecies ecosystems give rise to biodiversity that is vital to maintain the longevity of Earth as has been reported earlier here: http://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2024/02/udlco-biodiversity-climate-change.html?m=1 Similarly competency based learning diversity is essential to maintain global learning ecosystems as has been communicated here : http://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2024/02/udlco-generalist-v-specialist-education.html?m=1


Place : Hyderabad

More images here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1rMDzPme5Jw3L3NW/?mibextid=oFDknk

March 19, 2024 update:

Update on general examination features of the same trees previously archived here https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10163588982479502&id=800154501 since March 5


The barren leafless tree on the right is now full of leaves while the other tree on the left has started flowering well. 


 Reviewed the literature on similar observations :


"Each tree has its own blooming cycle. The one opposite starts first, around mid-February, followed by the one in front, early March, and then, the one on the side, by mid-March. By April, they are all done, and the trees wear a darker green canopy that they retain until winter."


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More images here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/YfoPEqh5npiyFC2Y/?mibextid=oFDknk

October 17 2024 update: 

More project data previously logged here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1rMDzPme5Jw3L3NW/?mibextid=oFDknk and here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/YfoPEqh5npiyFC2Y/?mibextid=oFDknk

March 19, 2024 

[16/10, 13:35] C: Pupae inside folded leaves of Pongamia pinnata. 16/10/2024, NOIDA, U.P.

[16/10, 13:37] C: Many leaves of Pongamia pinnata plant appear to have been eaten by insects.

[16/10, 15:21] PaJR moderator: Seeing the same here in Telangana

[16/10, 17:19] CUBE moderator : Any guess *which insects use Pongamia as Larval Host Plant* and *hence the possible insect that can emerge from this  pupa*? @⁨~C

[16/10, 17:20] CUBE moderator : Photos please, to inspire more on Pongama butterflies or moths. @⁨pajr moderator⁩

[16/10, 17:34] PaJR moderator: Pongamia photos on my way back home just now

[16/10, 18:31] CUBE moderator : 👍🤝😇🧐 Do you mean the leaves are eaten by caterpillars? @⁨pajr moderator 

[16/10, 18:36] PaJR moderator: Yes caterpillars is a possibility

[18/10, 08:51] PaJR moderator: Thanks for inspiring with the queries that drove me to capture more data on the pongamia research participants I meet daily on my walk to work a while ago 

This one shows some tumorous elements that was possibly instigated by an organism that got past the tumor suppressor gene guards of pongamia?

[18/10, 08:53] PaJR moderator: Also saw this other interesting pathology again due to another organism trying to build it's own ecosystem and diversify the pongamia tree's aesthetic phenotype!

More images here:








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