annals-of-botany
Melatonin works with Hydrogen peroxide to induce lateral root formation
Melatonin appears to help create lateral roots, but how exactly does it do this? A team from China have been examining the connection with hydrogen peroxide.
annals-of-botany
Modelling individual kernel filling-processes with source–sink interactions
Failure to account for the variation of kernel growth may cause serious deviations in the simulation of crop yield. Ma et al. built a GREENLAB-Maize-
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CRootBox: A functional-structural root model
Functional-structural plant (FSP) root models are increasingly used to investigate root-soil interactions. Schnepf et al. present CRootBox, a C++ based modelling framework for root
Reviews
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World by Alice Roberts
List books can be good, but there’s a knack to them. Nick Lane’s Life Ascending works because the various features to life he lists
AoB PLANTS
3D-modelling of buttress region and roots gives allometric carbon formulae
The largest uncertainty in humans’ contribution to climate change from land use is the fate of carbon that was belowground in pre-modified forests. In a
Close Encounters
Do Oaks Encourage the Baby-Eating Chipmunks of China?
You might expect acorn-eating chipmunks to be the enemies of oaks. New research out of Henan and Jiangxi suggests that the chipmunks aid oaks because acorns are not the only babies that the chipmunks eat.
annals-of-botany
DigR: a generic model and simulator of 3D root-system architecture
Several models of root system architecture exist in the literature but few of them are targeted at the organ level in response to environmental factors and
Plant Cuttings
Octulose, about to get bigger?
What is octulose? And why is it about to be bigger? Well, according to Qingwei Zhang and Dorothea Bartels, it’s a “forgotten metabolite”. Yes, but
annals-of-botany
Image-based dynamic quantification and 3D evaluation for canopy structure
Phenotypic analysis with high-throughput, high-accuracy and low-cost technologies has become widely accessible. Hui et al. reconstruct and evaluate 3D canopy of plant population
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What can you do with a holobiont?
It’s said all plants are holobionts. If that’s true why bother creating a new word? What value does the word holobiont bring that plant doesn’t already have?
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Structural and functional responses of coffee trees to elevated [CO2]
Air [CO2] tends to increase due to climate changes, affecting plant growth. Field-grown Coffea arabica trees were grown under actual and elevated [CO2] for four
annals-of-botany
Biomass allocation between lamina and petioles in a game of light competition in a dense annual plant stand
Plant architecture is important for light capture. In the field, plants compete with neighbours for light. In a competing system, game theory is needed to consider