While carnivorous plants eat insects, they get most of their energy from photosynthesis, like other plants. New research investigates how carnivory affects photosynthesis.
Tag - mineral nutrition
Alun Salt
Reducing a root’s oxygen supply makes it more difficult to examine nutrient stresses
Often the perennial C4 grass Urochloa humidicola is planted on infertile acidic and waterlogging-prone soils of tropical America. But what effect does that waterlogging have on its growth? Juan de la Cruz Jiménez and...
Not one, but two second messengers?
Confusingly, a second second messenger is not a third messenger.
Nigel Chaffey
Every dog has its day
One of the great hopes of the 1980s (and as far back as the 1940s) was that one plant species would be typical of all plants and could be used as a model for the entirety of plant biology. The plant chosen for that...
Responses of beech and spruce foliage to elevated carbon dioxide, increased nitrogen deposition and soil type
Although enhanced carbon fixation by forest trees may contribute significantly to mitigating an increase in atmospheric CO2, capacities for this fixation vary greatly among different tree species and locations. In a...
AoBPLANTS
Mistletoes and mutant albino shoots as nutrient traps
Potassium, sulphur and zinc contents of mistletoe leaves are generally higher than in their hosts because elements that are cycled between xylem and phloem in the process of phloem loading of sugars are trapped in the...
botanyone