Rainy season dos and donts

Rains are the timewhen plants and animals are in good swing. It is a season when games can also be played. Its a season of fun and frolic.

It is also a season when we may get sick like we have fever.

"The first showers of the monsoon season hit India in the first week of June at the South of India."

The monsoons will be there from June to September. 

In this season we may also have allergies or infections. 

The rain has viruses and bacteria. Water borne diseases are a risk during this season. 

They grow and multiply due to which we may catch diseases which may spread. 

A good way of using left over water from children's water bottles

 There is a school in pimpri (Pune) by name " City Pride School" which insists the school children to drop the left over water from water bottles in drums while leaving the school . The water collected in drums is used for watering the plants in the school premises. This practise is slowly adopted in the surrounding schools of Pimpri also........appx the water collected in these drums is around 1 lakh litre per annum......God bless the children and school management for practising such a wonderful thought .....!

Plants do Maths to get through the Night

Research shows that plants do accurate maths to prevent starvation at night.By doing so,they use up their starch reserves at a constant rate so that they run out of food almost precisely at dawn.

 During day they use sun's energy to make food.By energy from sun they convert carbon dioxide into sugars and starch.Onc the sun sets,they must depend on a store of starch to prevent starvation.
   Scientists at John Innes Centre have shown that plants make precise adjustments to their rate of starch consumption. These ensure that the starch lasts until dawn even if night comes early unexpectedly or size of starch store varies.And to adjust starch consumption so precisely they must be performing arithmetic division.
   During night,mechanisms inside leaf measure the size of starch store and estimate length of time until dawn. Information about time comes from an internal clock,similar to our own body clock.The size of starch store is then divided by length of time until dawn to set correct rate of starch consumption,so that by dawn around 95% of starch is used up.If it is used up too fast plants will starve during night and stop growing,and if it is too slow,it may be wasted.