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.
Tag - Climate change
Dale Maylea
Pollinators like moths are increasingly missing from a warming subarctic
The complex relationships between plants and their pollinators in subarctic Finland have changed dramatically across the last century
Eurekalert
The future of sweet corn turns sour
Heat during flowering damages the kernels before they develop.
Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
Botanical gardens act as artificial oases for butterflies in arid urban areas
Botanical gardens provide access to vital plants and water for butterflies in the southwest US. This will only become more important as the climate becomes warmer and drier.
Alun Salt
Spring is coming a week earlier to European forests
Botanists found evidence for the effects of climate change stored in herbaria.
You can protect blueberries from cold with some help from the Antarctic
Botanists have found a bodyguard that can protect blueberry plants from cold or drought shocks - but instead of protecting the outside of the plant, it lives inside it.
Changing seasons change tree growth, changing carbon sequestration by forests
An earlier spring changes the growing conditions for trees, and not always for the better.
Reverse archaeology reveals new insights into global warming
Often archaeologists will examine differences in vegetation to gain information on buried sites. Now, some botanists have reversed this and are using archaeological sites to learn about the effect of nutrient...
Computational model predicts soybean response to climate change
A successful plant model has now been parameterized to include soybean growth under elevated CO2.
Rachel Shekar
It’s far from certain that peat bogs can continue absorbing carbon dioxide at current rates
A common claim is that rising carbon dioxide is actually good for plants. Research from Sweden shows that reality is more complicated.
Simulating grass phenotypic plasticity as an emergent property
Integrating plant functioning at organ scale can simulate the phenotypic plasticity of plants.
Warm nights without respite accelerates the death of seedlings in a drought
A combination of morphological and physiological traits contribute to drought mortality, along with responses to night warming.
Do we need another picture book about plants?
It depends on whether or not it's a good picture book about plants.
Nigel Chaffey