Temperature – Plant en Zo

Sensing temperature

Plants sense temperature, but whether this is the actual temperature, or a perceived difference in temperature, that’s what the scientists are not sure about. Now a group of Japanese scientists think they have the answer, at least for the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.

Warm flowers

Warm flowers We associate warm-bloodedness, or to be more precise the regulation of body temperature through burning nutrients, with animals. With mammals and birds, but not really with plants. There are however, also plants that regulate their temperature independent of their environment. Mostly they do this for a specific organ, for example, their flowers. OneContinue reading “Warm flowers”