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redOrbit: When an animal gets too hot or too cold, or feels pangs of hunger or thirst, it tends to relocate – to where it’s cooler or hotter, or to the nearest place where food or water can be found. But what about vegetative life? What can a plant do under similar circumstances?
Plants can’t change the climate and they can’t uproot themselves to move to a more favorable spot. Yet they do respond successfully to changes in environmental conditions in diverse ways, many of which involve modifications of......
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Plant Biologists Dissect Genetic Mechanism Enabling Plants To Overcome Environmental Challenge
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation