Maize is better when it’s hairy
Root hairs help maize take up phosphorus from the soil.
Tag: macronutrients
The parasitic plant Cuscuta sets up barriers to some minerals when infecting a host
If the parasitic plant dodder taps its host with a straw, then it’s a specialised straw than can filter out some nutrients that the plant isn’t using.
Carnivory, more than meets the eye…
No morsel of the victim is wasted when a plant traps its prey.
Spotlight on macronutrients: Touchy-feely calcium…
Calcium (Ca) acts – amongst other things! – as a so-called ‘second messenger’, and participates in many processes of plant growth and development.
Spotlight on macronutrients : Carbon (mainly)
Whilst members of the Plant Kingdom might dominate terrestrial biomes, non-Plant Kingdom members are the major photosynthetic organisms in aquatic habitats