The best way to rejuvenate forests is to let in a little light - but not too much.
Category - Growth & Development
Dale Maylea
What drives cambium development?
Using a mathematical model to test a proposed cambial cell division feedback loop.
Rachel Shekar
Unlocking the secret to breeding high yielding protein-rich wheat
Models enable the optimization of multiple trait trade-offs.
Feral Crops: The Untapped Potential to Boost Food Security Amid Climate Change
Scientists are exploring a new way to improve food security in the face of climate change by studying "feral crops" - wild plants that have escaped cultivation and continue to thrive without human intervention.
Clonal Plants Use Smart Connections to Boost Resistance Against Hungry Insects
Plants that can reproduce by cloning themselves can share resources and signals to resist herbivores. Clones can change the structure of their leaves according to herbivore stress through the connections between them.
Fi Gennu
What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.
Do plants invest more in a live-fast and die-young strategy, or take it slow and steady? Botanists have found that the appearance above the ground might not reflect what's happening in the roots.
Missing seed data from the tropics could be harming conservation efforts
Visscher and colleagues propose that global analyses of seed traits with evidence for geographical variation prioritize the generation of new data from tropical regions as well as multi-lingual searches to fill...
Why would a flower change its shape?
Bilateral flowers tend to receive less pollen than radial flowers, so why would a plant want a bilateral flower?
Botanists find a cool way to preserve an endangered plant’s seeds
If you wonder how cool cool is, it's at least -196 ℃ (-320 ℉).
Alun Salt
How to account for clonal pup mass
Modeling differences in reproductive effort between iteroparous and semelparous reproductive strategies in Bromeliaceae
Why is active carbon storage being ignored by modelers?
Active carbon pools need to be included for accurate simulation of plant growth patterns under fluctuating environments.
The future of sweet corn turns sour
Heat during flowering damages the kernels before they develop.
Eurekalert
When you don’t kill weeds you teach them how to survive
It's not your imagination, some plants are prepared for your hoe when you try to eradicate them from your garden.
Improving crop modeling using machine learning
Integration of machine learning and crop modelling can optimize predictions of plant growth and yield.
