Chloroplast movement is a fundamental adaptive response that enables plants to optimise light absorption for efficient photosynthesis and to mitigate photodamage under intense light. This dynamic ...
Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, ...
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...
On a shelf lined with terra-cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward the nearest window. In a field of golden wildflowers, leaves rotate with the path of the sun. In a dappled forest, vines twine up ...
Chantal Nguyen acknowledges support from Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP), Young Investigator Grant No. RGY0078/2019, and the U.S. Army Research Office Grant No. 78234EG. This research was a ...