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Magnified cross section of the internal cellular structure of a young tree.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Plants Need a Lot of Power to Pump Sap

by Rebecca Dzombak 16 September 202216 September 2022

A novel calculation reveals how much power plants need to move water through their stems—and how plants gain energy from the process.

Viburnum leaf beetle on a chewed leaf
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Plant-Nibbling Insects May Make It Cloudier and Cooler

by Rebecca Dzombak 17 August 202217 August 2022

Insects that eat plant leaves could change the local atmosphere, but current climate models do not account for this impact.

View of the University of Michigan Biological Station
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Using Sap Flow to Infer Plant Hydraulic Properties

by Morgan Rehnberg 29 July 202229 July 2022

The internal hydraulic properties of plants are difficult to measure but may be inferred from observable sap flow.

Three field photographs showing different vegetation types.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

It’s Cool to be Short When You’re in the Arctic Permafrost

by Ankur R. Desai 15 July 202225 July 2022

Extensive ground temperature measurements complicate our understanding of how vegetation cover, snow duration, and microtopography influence the pace of permafrost thaw in a changing climate.

Floating water hyacinths with trapped plastics.
Posted inNews

Remote Sensing Tracks Down “Plastic Plants” in Rivers

by Clarissa Wright 28 June 2022

Researchers are using remote sensing to track floating mats of plastic trapped in water hyacinth plants.

Aerial view of a coastal mangrove wetland in Abu Dhabi.
Posted inNews

Planting Wetlands Could Help Stave Off Climate Catastrophe

by Jennifer Schmidt 1 June 20221 June 2022

A shift in priority and approach to wetland restoration could reduce atmospheric carbon.

Planta Arabidopsis de dos semanas cultivada en un regolito lunar. La planta es pequeña y ella y el regolito se encuentran al centro de la imagen dentro de un recipiente de cristal transparente.
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El suelo lunar permite cultivar plantas

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 June 202216 June 2022

Plantas cultivadas en regolito lunar recolectado por las misiones Apollo crecieron con éxito desde la semilla hasta el retoño, brindando así información sobre las futuras perspectivas de la agricultura lunar.

An Arabidopsis plant grown in lunar soil for about 2 weeks
Posted inNews

Lunar Soil Can Grow Plants

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 13 May 202216 June 2022

Plants grown in lunar regolith collected by Apollo missions successfully grew from seed to sprout, lending insight into future lunar agriculture prospects.

Electron microscopy image of the charcoal found at the Than Formation in Saurashtra Basin, Gujarat, India.
Posted inNews

Cretaceous Charcoal Gives a Glimpse of Plant Evolution

by Meghie Rodrigues 18 April 20221 August 2022

New data from vegetal charcoal in northwest India supports the theory of paleowildfires as a global phenomenon and an evolutionary force for biodiversity.

Una mosca amarilla y negra se posa sobre los pétalos de una pequeña flor de mostaza amarilla. La mosca está mirando hacia la izquierda y fue fotografiada a una distancia lo suficientemente cercana como para que se vean las manchas de polen que cubren la mosca.
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La polinización se desplomó 31% en campos contaminados

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 April 202212 April 2022

Los niveles de contaminación del aire por debajo de los límites “seguros” (y más bajos que los que comúnmente se encuentran en las ciudades) llevaron a una disminución significativa de la polinización de hasta por 10 insectos comunes.

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