Active carbon pools need to be included for accurate simulation of plant growth patterns under fluctuating environments.
Tag - light
Rachel Shekar
Is auxin behind adventitious root formation in petunia cuttings?
Yes, but you'll need nitrogen and somewhere dark.
Fi Gennu
Virus gives light a dark side
What is it that causes a virus to replicate? A team studying Coccolithovirus in algae found light was a crucial element in reproduction.
Alun Salt
Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality
Plants respond not only to the environment in which they find themselves, but also to that of their parents. The combination of within- and trans-generational phenotypic plasticity regulates plant development. The light...
William Salter
Photoinhibition of seed germination in Lilioids
The results show the relative importance of the different factors that may be involved in explaining the occurrence of photoinhibition in Lilioid monocots.
botanyone
Grass florets bet-hedge against unpredictable rainfall in arid landscapes
Seed germination in the arid zone is a high-risk event. For grasses specifically, the ancillary bracts of the floret surrounding the seed have been associated with innate dormancy mechanisms, resulting in infrequent...
Light competition suppresses couch grass more efficiently than nutrient competition
Competitive crops are important for sustainable cropping systems. For perennial weeds, below-ground organs, for instance rhizomes for couch grass, constitute the best measure of a crop’s long term suppressive...
Seed germination of seven desert plants and implications for vegetation restoration
Germination cues reflect the conditions under which a species is likely to succeed in recruitment. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Lai et al. evaluated the seed germination responses of seven desert species...
AoBPLANTS
Light on hemiparasitic plants impacts on their hosts
Although parasitic plant–host associations occur in an ever-changing light environment, there is a poor understanding of how light influences the impact of the parasite on the host plant. Cirocco et al. hypothesize that...
Phenotypic plasticity to light and nutrient availability alters functional trait ranking across eight perennial grassland species
Functional traits are often used as species-specific means in trait-based predictions of ecosystem processes, assuming that interspecific differences are greater than intraspecific trait variation. Although this...
Co-adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering time
Time from seed dispersal to germination and time from germination to flowering are two key life history traits that determine fitness and coexistence of weeds in arable fields. Toorop et al. characterize these two...
Modelling lengths of cucumber internodes
Light has tremendous effects on crop architecture and its quantity and quality affect internode lengths in cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Kahlen and Stützel make simplifications to a light quantity- and quality-sensitive...
