American Journal of Botany, Vol. 100, No. 1, ADVANCES IN PLANT TROPISMS (January 2013), pp. 35-46 (12 pages) Light is a key environmental factor that drives many aspects of plant growth and ...

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

Plant phototropism—directional growth in response to light—serves as a key adaptive mechanism, optimizing photosynthesis and development. Central to this process is phototropin 1 (phot1), a primary ...

VARIOUS explanations of the interesting phenomena classed as tropisms have, from time to time, been put forward; ranging from Loeb's completely mechanical hypothesis 1 to the point of view of Russell ...

A: It could just be the weight of the flowerhead, or a phenomenon called ‘phototropism’, where the plant bends towards the brightest light. I don’t think there’s any need to worry. Just for fun, here ...

A PROLIFIC investigator does a great service to his brethren when, without waiting to write an elaborate treatise, he collects the gist of some considerable portion of his work into a book; and if the ...