Discover mechanisms to help plants survive in extreme weather

Plants can learn to "forget" the effects of extreme weather patterns.

This is a new discovery that will help researchers in the process of preparing measures to help crops and trees overcome the harsh weather conditions that are expected to occur more and more in the future. hybrid

In a statement released on August 4, Professor Barry Pogson from the Australian National University, said the research team experimented with plant samples in environments with high light pressure for 60 minutes and then again. let out recover in 60 minutes later.

Natural pressures play an important role in plant growth.

The results showed that these plant samples were able to restore their normal state before being introduced to the test environment to ensure that living functions such as nutrient absorption continued and healthy growth. .

The team also experimented in other high-pressure environments and as a result plant samples could also "miraculously" recover to their original state.

The study's lead author, Dr. Peter Crisp, said that plants can basically "ignore" extreme conditions by automatically "turning off" the reception of information from pressure factors. like light or heat. This is one of the ways plants use to survive in harsh environmental conditions and constantly change.

Natural pressures play an important role in plant growth , which has a great influence on chloroplasts, an important functional unit in plant cells, which plays a role in the function of photosynthesis. .

The authors believe that the results of this research will soon help scientists develop measures to improve the recovery process for food crops that are susceptible to extreme weather events.