Three new methods indicate that rising carbon dioxide reduces seedling respiration
Can new careful methods help us understand how plant respiration will be affected by rising carbon dioxide concentrations?
Tag: Helianthus annuus
A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on – as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun
There’s been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
Movements of sunflower and shade avoidance (Viewpoint)
The shade avoidance response, which may optimize CO2-assimilation, appears to be the ‘driving force’ behind these conspicuous plant movements.
