In comparison with unvegetated soils, the presence of plants markedly affects the structure of soil microbial communities. Plant roots affect the physical, as well as chemical environment through the ...
At first glance, plants may seem passive – but beneath their stillness lies a world of complexity and constant activity.
This basic structure of a plant cell is shown below – the same plant cell, as viewed with the light microscope, and with the transmission electron microscope. Animal and plant cells have certain ...
Green plants and algae use light energy to make glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. Temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and light intensity can affect the rate of photosynthesis.
Just like humans and other animals, plants need an immune system to defend themselves from disease. An important part of the plant immune system is Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI), which can sense ...
Plant and Soil, Vol. 232, No. 1/2, PROCEEDING OF THE MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE ON RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS (May 2001), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Here we report on a range of studies designed to understand ...
Show an alien how much you know about plant life on Earth. Answer a quiz on plant structure and function. Identify labels for plant parts. Match each plant part with its function. This learning object ...
1 Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Munich, Germany 2 Department of Educational Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States One ...
1. Analogous to the spread of non-native species, shifts in native species' ranges resulting from climate and land use change are also creating new combinations of species in many ecosystems. These ...