As the climate warms, shifts in temperature and water availability, affects competition and interaction among native and exotic plant species in Southern British Columbia.
Tag - Water
Fi Gennu
Maize is better when it’s hairy
Root hairs help maize take up phosphorus from the soil.
Plant Records: The ever thirsty sugarcane
You might like a drink at Christmas, but Jenna Loiseau finds that sugarcane is REALLY thirsty.
Guest Author
The roots of hydrotropism
Most plants are essentially rooted to a spot and immobile. While the factors they need for growth – e.g. sunlight, minerals, and water – are often present in the environment, they aren’t always close enough to the plant...
Nigel Chaffey
New forms of: Carbon, water and photosynthesis
Somewhat disappointingly, this ‘three for the price of one’ item is not about plants – neither exclusively nor even specifically. However, since it deals with matters that are fundamental to all life on Earth (including...
Thirsty? Then suck on a stone!
Whilst it is claimed that only the taxman can get blood out of a stone, it seems that some plants can abstract water from stone-like minerals. Arguably, ahead of light, water is the most important abiotic factor that...
Accumulation of ferruginol in heartwood-forming xylem
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry & quantitative analyses are used to study distribution of ferruginol in a 30-yr tree of Cryptomeria japonica.
botanyone
Clean drinking water via plants
Plant xylem from the sapwood of coniferous trees can remove bacteria from water by simple pressure-driven filtration.
annbot
Spotlight on macronutrients: Hydrogen (and oxygen…)
No matter how well we think we understand water, there are always more surprises to uncover.
Matching roots to their environment (Special Issue)
How the roots of land plants evolved, how root ecology affects the utilization of soil resources, and the influence of plant roots on biogeochemical cycles.
Soil to roots to stem to atmosphere…
Studies show that fog water diffuses directly through leaf cuticles of Drimys brasiliensis and is transported through the xylem to below ground.
AJ Cann
Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
Water
Rounding off our look at the elements, like other biota plants need water to live. If insufficiently hydrated they will suspend life activities (at best) or die (at worst). But unlike other biota – such as animals –...
