Autotrophic plants have evolved distinctive mechanisms for maintaining a range of homeostatic states for sugars. The on/off switch of reversible gene expression by sugar starvation/provision ...

Nicole Hynson receives funding from The National Science Foundation and the WM Keck Foundation. You probably learned this basic lesson of biology in elementary school: Plants are self-feeders. These ...

All living organisms need energy to perform various life processes and the source of energy for all living organisms is food. It is available from different sources. There are two types of modes of ...

The number of plant species that extract organic nutrients from fungi could be much higher than previously assumed. This was discovered by researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the ...

The stable carbon isotope ¹³C is used as a universal tracer in plant eco-physiology and studies of carbon exchange between vegetation and atmosphere. Photosynthesis fractionates against CO₂ so that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nicole Hynson, University of Hawaii (THE CONVERSATION) You probably learned this basic ...

The process by which green plants make their own food from carbon dioxide and water by using sunlight energy in the presence of chlorophyll is called photosynthesis. Green plants also need foos to ...

About 4,000-5,000 parasitic plant species exist. Among these, dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) are distributed worldwide. Compared with normal autotrophic plants, they have a unique morphology - they ...