Cucumber Growth Time Lapse Video

Fascinating information about the circumnutation of a cucumber plant. There is no possible way this highly sophisticated adaptation developed by chance. Only an intelligent creator could have made something so amazing! "Climbing plants have been puzzling biologists since the 19th century. The technique the plants use to winch themselves upwards is well known, but the underlying mechanism has been a mystery until now. The new research, published in the journal Science, investigates in unprecedented detail the supporting tendrils of the cucumber plant. When first formed, a tendril is almost straight, and while growing it slowly waves around in a poorly understood process called circumnutation. When it encounters a foothold, the end of the tendril wraps around it, securing a support. The tendril then shortens by coiling up into a corkscrew-like helix, pulling up the rest of the plant. But rather than twisting only in one direction -- impossible without twisting the plant at the other end -- the two halves of the coiled section curl up in opposite directions, separated by an uncoiled stretch called a perversion, so there's no net twist. How this coiling occurs wasn't understood. A group of scientists led by Sharon Gerbode and Josh Puzey, who carried out the work while at Harvard University, investigated the nature of recently discovered specialised cells that form a stiff ribbon of material inside each soft, fleshy tendril." Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/30/secrets-climbing-plants-tendrils