A valuable book for botany students, but exactly how valuable?
Tag - Plant Physiology
Nigel Chaffey
No acclimation: flexible responses of photosynthesis to different temperatures in American elm
Will photosynthetic processes of trees be able to keep up with future changes in temperature and precipitation under climate change?
William Salter
tealeaves: an R package for modelling leaf temperature using energy budgets
Plants are able to grow, survive and reproduce under a wide range of temperatures. Examples of plants that thrive in temperature extremes include cushion plants in alpine ecosystems that grow close to the ground to stay...
Grow with the flow…
Results strongly suggest that cytoplasmic streaming is a key determinant of plant size.
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Your botanical ‘one-stop shop’
There are plant biology journals that seem to concentrate on a single taxon (you know the ones I mean!) – e.g. The Plant Journal and The Plant Cell. There are others devoted to the molecular biology of plants, such as...
Feel the force!
Plants are remarkably sensitive to their environment, responding by appropriate growth and development to a wide range of environmental stimuli. In the case of gravity, the appropriate response is for stems to grow...
Picture perfect vs. perfect genuine…
With free digital image editing software has come the temptation to ‘massage’ images so that they look their best.
On track with Plant Trek
Dr Richard Stout's free ‘book’ is entitled Plant Trek, and is focused on GM (genetic modification/manipulation/meddling)/GE (genetic engineering) and plants
Homage to a nanotubule…
Frequently, journals will devote a whole issue to a particular theme, maybe even to a single species (even whole journals are seemingly devoted to Arabidopsis thaliana…). But rarely will they be devoted to a...
Relocation, relocation, relocation…
A study shows cold-induced organelle relocation in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, not only of chloroplasts, but nuclei and peroxisomes, too.
Time for some carbs, now
Carbohydrates and plants means more than just sucrose, starch and cellulose.
Scaring the crows…
One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that end scarecrows were invented by human beings, although their...
Hair today; iHair tomorrow…
At the subterranean interface between ‘plant’ and ‘non-plant’ few structures play a more important role than root hairs – tiny, closed-ended tubular projections from single cells in the root’s epidermis. Not only do...
