plant-physiology

Polarized and Specular Reflectance Variation with Leaf Surface FeaturesGrant, L., C. S. T. Daughtry, and V. Vanderbilt (1993), Polarized and Specular Reflectance Variation with Leaf Surface Features, Physiology Plantarum., 88, 1–9. Preface to the JGR Special Section on ‘The NASA Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Project: Tropical Field Experiment (STEP)Pfister, L., and P. B. Russell (1993), Prefa…

In this new post Kaz Uyehara, postdoc researcher at UC Davies, presents his work ‘Neighbour-detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition’. He explains how plants need to take critical decisions, shares his expertise about setting experiments and shows how it is possible to combine multiple passions, and even make a living out of it! About th…

The information presented here is derived from the study conducted by Carminati and Javaux in 2020, which aimed to provide insights into plant hydraulics. Carminati referred to the work of Kroeber et al. in 2014, who conducted extensive measurements on a variety of plants and reported their data. However, a discrepancy arises between hydrologists and plant physiologists in the units used to measu…

How does the sugar get into the beet? This question has been investigated by researchers at FAU’s Division of Molecular Plant Physiology in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Kaiserslautern, Cologne and Würzburg, and the companies Südzucker AG and KWS Saat AG. They have discovered a previously unknown mechanism...

Sometimes networking with new scientists at conferences and workshops can pay dividends in terms of new ideas. Steve Garrity and I recently attended and taught practicum sessions at the PEPg (Plant Environmental Physiology group) Ecophysiology Workshop. The mission of this workshop was twofold: to invite the world experts on plant physiology measurements to come and […] The post Measuring Osmotic…