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tealeaves: an R package for modelling leaf temperature using energy budgets

William Salter - January 30, 2020 0

Plants are able to grow, survive and reproduce under a wide range of temperatures. Examples of plants that thrive in temperature extremes...

Ecosystems

Resprouting potential of rhizome fragments in an invasive aquatic plant

William Salter - January 23, 2020 0

Non-native aquatic Ludwigia species from a polyploid complex are among the world’s most problematic invasive plants. A new paper in AoBP finds out why.

Computational Models

A new whole-plant framework simulates realistic water and carbon flow

Rachel Shekar - January 21, 2020 0

CPlantBox generates a variety of 3D full plant architectures and accurately simulates water and carbon flow in the full plant.

Computational Models

From stable rules to complex shapes in plant modelling

Alun Salt - January 20, 2020 0

How can models capture the complexity and variation of plant phenotypes? Vidal and Andrieu have taken a look at maize.

Growth & Development

Palms show huge variation in their resistance to drought-induced embolism

Erin Zimmerman - January 14, 2020 0

This study represents the first estimate of drought-induced xylem embolism in palms across biomes and provides the first step towards understanding hydraulic adaptations in long-lived arborescent monocots.

Growth & Development

Spine type and resource availability affect when saplings grow their defences

Erin Zimmerman - January 9, 2020 0

For young woody plants, being eaten by large mammals is a major threat and source of sapling mortality. Some species produce spines...

Growth & Development

Impact of sodic soils on wheat coleoptile length and root angle

Fi Gennu - December 10, 2019 0

How do plants emerge from the ground in tough sodium-rich soils?

Ecosystems

Thermal acclimation of plant respiration is tissue type specific

William Salter - December 9, 2019 0

Carbon released from the land surface is one of the largest fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the atmosphere and the Earth’s...

Growth & Development

Maize is better when it’s hairy

Fi Gennu - December 8, 2019 0

Root hairs help maize take up phosphorus from the soil.

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