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.
Category - Growth & Development
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?
Dale Maylea
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
Rachel Shekar
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.
Autonomous construction of 3D leaves
An assessment of deep generative networks in creating realistic 3D data
Modelling perennial grass phenology
Predicting phenology can provide insight into better management.
Increased soybean yields finally achieved
Bioengineering boosts photosynthesis and increases yields in food crops for the first time ever.
Tree buds need cosy blankets for the spring rather than the winter
It may be that buds in winter are 'on pause' and they are in fact prepared to protect their contents in the changeable spring weather.
Juniper Kiss