"As water potential is regarded the best indicator of plant water status, because it is the integrated result of above- and below-ground environmental conditions, it holds promise as a pivotal model variable to which...
Tag - plant growth
Rachel Shekar
Plant computational model explains how leaf veins develop
Polar auxin transport dynamics control vein patterning.
Turgor-Driven Plant Growth Inside a Soybean Functional-Structural Plant Model
Turgor pressure within a plant cell represents the key to mechanistically describe plant growth, combining the effect of both water and carbon availability. The high level of spatio-temporal variation and diurnal...
Alex Assiry
Wild relatives of beans retain useful drought resistance
A new study of wild crop relatives of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) finds they retain useful adaptations to drought stress.
Fi Gennu
Root growth and plant height connected to an auxin-related gene
What makes a plant tall? Scientists think it may be connected to a gene involved in responding to the hormone Auxin.
Introducing MuSCA, the multi-scale carbon allocation model
MuSCA reveals that the topological scale has a major influence on the simulation of carbon allocation.
Alun Salt
Red:far-red photoreceptors in maize determine plant growth and grain yield
Phytochrome B is a photoreceptor that controls plant plasticity and resource partitioning. Little is known about its impact on maize crops.
Towards turgor-driven growth in FSPs
In many scenarios, water availability plays a determinant role in plant growth. Current functional-structural plant models (FSPs) mainly focus on plant-carbon relations and largely disregard the importance of plant...
botanyone
Should I fight or should I grow? Cytokinins in defence-growth trade-offs
Constitutive defence activation in plants leads to resistance to a broad-spectrum of pathogens, but also frequently to stunted growth and reduced seed sets; how do plants decide whether to defend against infection or to...
SPECIAL ISSUE: Using Ideas from Behavioural Ecology to Understand Plants
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue Using Ideas from Behavioural Ecology to Understand Plants, edited by James F Cahill (University of Alberta, Canada). The way that environmental and...
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Poplar saplings exposed to recurring temperature shifts of different amplitude exhibit differences in leaf gas exchange and growth despite equal mean temperature
Most investigations of plant responses to changes in temperature have focused on a constant increase in temperature. However, changes in fluctuation in temperature, even if the mean temperature is the same, may affect...
Carbohydrate storage and allometric partitioning in juvenile trees
Biomass partitioning for resource conservation might affect plant allometry, accounting for a substantial amount of unexplained variation in existing plant allometry models. Tomlinson et al. compare root carbohydrate...
Effects of cotyledon damage on fitness in Medicago
Effects of cotyledon damage on fitness in <i>Medicago</i> Damage to cotyledons can have significant effects on subsequent plant growth and reproduction. Studying the annual species Medicago lupulina, Zhang...
