Scientists watching the daily movement of branches in the creosote plant have found that even dead branches move to respond to changes in the air.
Tag - plant movement
Alun Salt
The teardrop explodes, and spreads Orixa japonica
Video captures how an Asian plant catapults its seeds away from the parent.
3D aquatic plant carnivory by the waterwheel plant and deformed snap-traps
The research contributes to the understanding of a complex, fast and reversible underwater plant movement
Juniper Kiss
Anaesthetic blocks trap closure and wounding response in Venus Flytraps
Diethyl ether renders flytraps unable to close their traps or respond to wounding using a mechanism with parallels in animals.
Erin Zimmerman
Spore liberation in mosses
The ability to perform hygroscopic movements has evolved in many plant lineages and relates to a multitude of different functions such as seed burial, flower protection or regulation of diaspore release. In a recent...
AoBPLANTS
4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun
There's been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
Movements of sunflower and shade avoidance (Viewpoint)
The shade avoidance response, which may optimize CO2-assimilation, appears to be the ‘driving force’ behind these conspicuous plant movements.
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