A study from Chapman University provides the first comprehensive global estimates of water storage in Earth’s vegetation and the time it takes for that water to flow through plants. The research fills ...
Plant cells can also arrest their cell cycle in response to adverse environmental ... can be formed continuously throughout their entire life span. The tissues that are responsible for maintaining ...
As plants disappear, large life on Earth would starve and die ... couple global-mean models of plant productivity, the carbon cycle, and climate to determine the eventual extinction mechanisms ...
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fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...