Martin and Issac quantified size-dependent variation in eight leaf traits in a single coffee genotype (Coffea arabica var. Caturra) in managed agroecosystems.
Tag - Photosynthesis
Juniper Kiss
Seasonal coordination of leaf hydraulics and gas exchange in a wintergreen fern
What are the anatomical and physiological strategies Polystichum acrostichoides uses to maintain photosynthesis and avoid hydraulic failure across the year?
William Salter
SoyFACE for 3D soybean canopy modelling under elevated carbon dioxide
New mathematical model dissects how soybean plants might grow larger in the future.
Optimising photosynthetic resource distributions to improve wheat yield
How does the optimality of photosynthetic resource distribution relative to light availability vary across a wheat population?
Quantifying root and shoot growth in wheat using X-ray Computed Tomography
How are relationships between root and shoot growth incluenced by drought and soil type in wheat?
What happens to nutrients, after a carnivorous plant has digested its prey?
While carnivorous plants eat insects, they get most of their energy from photosynthesis, like other plants. New research investigates how carnivory affects photosynthesis.
Alun Salt
Is age just a number if you’re a plant? How plant responses to the environment change with age
Trait sensitivity to the environment is most visible during earlier stages of development, after which intraspecific trait variation and relationships may stabilize.
Liam Elliott
Hydraulic adjustments are of limited use in bracken fern
Changes in leaf anatomy, more than hydraulics, allowed the ferns to thrive in a high light environment.
Erin Zimmerman
A 3D functional–structural plant model of shoot and root driven by soil hydraulics
Improved modelling of carbon assimilation and plant growth to low soil moisture requires evaluation of underlying mechanisms in the soil, roots, and shoots. The feedback between plants and their local environment...
Alex Assiry
New grapevine model better predicts whole-canopy gas exchange
Models considering only the maximum photosynthetic capacity for all leaves over-estimated net carbon dioxide exchange by nearly a third.
Not All Pine Needles Are Identical: Lower Crown Loss in Pinus radiata
When fungal infection comes to Pinus radiata, it can run through the bottom of the crown of the tree, removing its leaves. What effect does this defoliation have when it occurs? Mireia Gomez-Gallego and colleagues...
Fi Gennu
Complex interplay of responses when plants experience canopy shading
Plants react to both decreased red:far red ratio and decreased photosynthetically active radiation, and in different ways.
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part IV
This is the last of our quartet of blog posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens, and looks at those organisms from a different viewpoint… Image: DDDDDDDDD / Wikipedia Cyanobacteria lighting the way for...
Nigel Chaffey
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III
This is the third of our quartet of posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. Image: David Fuchs / Wikipedia Asteroids, bad for dinosaurs, but good for cyanobacteria? This really good news for...
