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10) Plant physiology
Author
Series
Publisher
Momentum Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This book examines three ways plants respond to their changing environment. The first example can be found in all plants. Despite the extreme changes in weather, plants have to stay where they are and respond to whatever nature produces. Plants have the capacity to respond quickly and yet they can evolve in a single generation. The second example addresses how an individual leaf has to respond rapidly and repeatedly to maintain the proper balance...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic commerce exposes a system not unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They can learn and remember, possessing an intelligence that allows them...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? The Revolutionary Genius of Plants--a fascinating, paradigm-shifting work that upends everything you thought you knew about plants--makes a compelling scientific case that these and other astonishing ideas are all true. Plants make up eighty percent of the weight of all living things on earth, and yet it is easy to forget that these innocuous, beautiful...
18) Photosynthesis
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Plants don't eat food. Instead, they use sunlight to get energy that they can use. Photosynthesis looks at how plants take in water and air and turn them into sugars the plants can use.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Flowers evolved to attract pollinators, so new generations of plant can form. But how do plants know when to bloom, and how do they construct their flowers? This book describes what we have learnt of the astonishing genetic and epigenetic processes behind the dazzling variety of flower shapes, colours, and scents.