Light transmitted from the shoot to the roots activates photoreceptors in the roots and triggers light-dependent growth responses in plants, scientists have discovered. Light is not only a source ...

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Though the research is preliminary, the researchers believe that bioluminescent plants may someday light our streets, parks, and even our homes. The benefits of glow-in-the-dark plants are pretty ...

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Dear Plant Doctor, My white bucida has started to sprout green shoots ... exposed to more light due to pruning or loss of foliage, dormant buds may activate, leading to new shoot growth.

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These are compacted, swollen stems which are produced underground and remain there when the “parent plant ... green bits many a time. I just wouldn’t eat any with extensive shoot growth and ...

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While under the soil's surface, in the dark, plant seedlings ... of the green pigment chlorophyll. Wang's team found that GATA2 switches on many genes that are turned on by light but turned ...

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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and Seoul National University, South Korea, were able to show for the first time that roots react directly to light ...