Inventing the forests of 'Avatar'
Saturday, January 2, 2010 - 01:15
in Mathematics & Economics
A plant physiologist from UC Riverside helped create the exotic flora seen in the movie. 'What botanist would not want to "discover" new plants and name them?' she says. James Cameron's science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" takes place in 2154 on the lush moon Pandora. To help make the set believable, Jodie Holt, chairwoman of the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UC Riverside,...