Plants, just like us, need oxygen, but their growth centre, there where the leaves and stems emerge, is surprisingly low on oxygen. There, there is four to six times less than in the air outside the plant. Now a group of international researchers show in Molecular Plant how a plant establishes and maintains this low oxygen niche.
Tag Archives: Growth regions
Season dependent growth pause
Trees and other perennial plants stop growing each year when it gets colder. A strategy that helps then to survive the cold winter. But how plants are regulating this is not completely known. A group of Swedish and Chinese researchers found this out for poplars.
Each growth centre cell type its own complex
In a plant’s growth centre there are lots of proteins involved in the regulation of cell divisions. Now German and Dutch researchers show in EMBO reports the interaction of those proteins in root growth centre.
From growth to flowering
From growth to flowering During the transition from growth to flowering the growth centre is changing from form and function. Instead of leaves, it now will produce flowers. The team of George Coupland characterised what exactly changes and how the plant is regulating this. Growth centres are the reason that plants can grow new tissuesContinue reading “From growth to flowering”
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