Bioengineering boosts photosynthesis and increases yields in food crops for the first time ever.
Tag - shade
Rachel Shekar
Microclimates in herb patches can provide refuges for overheating insects
Research shows that patches of flowering plants can provide crucial shade during heatwaves, even in surprisingly small patches.
Alun Salt
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.
Erin Zimmerman
Germination responses to pre-dispersal light and post-dispersal cues
Should seeds respond to their parents’ environments or their own? Leverett et al. hypothesize that germination would respond more strongly to a post-dispersal vegetative canopy than a pre-dispersal canopy, because a...
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Hydraulic resistances in developing kiwifruit berry
Xylem flows into most fruits decline as the fruit develop, with important effects on mineral and carbohydrate accumulation. Mazzeo et al. use pressure chamber and flow-meter techniques to examine changes in xylem...
Habitat specialization through germination cueing
The importance of regeneration to plant habitat specialization has been poorly studied. ten Brink et al. examine the adaptive association between germination ecology and specialization to either forest or open habitats...
