Growth – Plant en Zo

The growth or defence dilemma

Young plants are often extra sensitive for insect damage. But it is not as easy as increasing its defence a study of Chinese researchers shows in Scientific Advances.

Knowing what your neighbour is doing

Knowing what your neighbour is doing Plant cells are connected to each other via their cell wall. While growing, it is therefore useful that they know what their neighbouring cells are doing. Now researchers show in Nature Plants how plants perceive changes of their neighbours: though holding on to them. When plant cells don’t reactContinue reading “Knowing what your neighbour is doing”

How to predict winter

How to predict winter It’s a challenge, year after year, to stop growing on time. And, after winter, to start again. Annual plants have it easy. They germinate, grow, flower, set seeds, disperse them, and die. Simple. Easy, first one thing than the next. Being a perennial is not that easy. Every year you needContinue reading “How to predict winter”