Slow growth the key to long term cold sensing
Plants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyPlants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyThe process by which plants use a prolonged cold period – winter – to promote flowering is known as vernalization
Read the storyIn many plants the timing of flowering is controlled by a range of environmental and molecular signals. One of these signals, prolonged cold, aligns flowering with spring in a process known as vernalization
Read the storyPioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an unexpected plus side of climate change for farmers
Read the storyUK rapeseed growers are losing up to 25% of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window
Read the storyNew evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations
Read the storyMany plants need to avoid flowering in the autumn, even if conditions are favourable, otherwise they would perish in winter
Read the storyA new study has uncovered multiple factors that contribute to the important phenomenon of vernalisation in plants
Read the storyScientists have taken another crucial step towards understanding how plants initiate flowering
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