Perennial plants store carbohydrates to bridge carbon shortages. Like those in the winter for example. Now American researchers show that it matters where a plant creates those carbohydrate stores.
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CO2 regulates stomata opening
Stomata, the pores on the underside of the leaf, let CO2 in for photosynthesis and water vapour out. Now researchers show that by an increasing of CO2 in the atmosphere plants are not using this to fix more energy but for saving water.
Sounding the alarm
Early detection of a pathogen attack can prevent the spread of an infection. But how this early detection is then translated into warning for the rest of the plant is not known. Now British researchers show in Nature Plants using a reporter system that the alarm passes through the plant much faster than first thought.
Creating an oxygen-restricted niche
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.
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