Phytochrome B is a photoreceptor that controls plant plasticity and resource partitioning. Little is known about its impact on maize crops.
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Alex Assiry
Modelling the interaction between light competition and herbivore feeding patterns
Plants usually compete with neighbouring plants for resources such as light as well as defend themselves against herbivorous insects. This requires investment of limiting resources, resulting in optimal resource...
botanyone
A new angle on enhancing crop yield
For sunflowers a friend is not someone you can lean on - as Nigel Chaffey finds out.
Nigel Chaffey
Modelling lengths of cucumber internodes
Light has tremendous effects on crop architecture and its quantity and quality affect internode lengths in cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Kahlen and Stützel make simplifications to a light quantity- and quality-sensitive...
