Research pinpoints region of plant genome where rising CO2 controls flowering time
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 08:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Henry David Thoreau obsessively recorded the flowering time of plants around Concord, Mass., in the 1850s, while Japanese naturalists took keen note of the flowering time of cherry blossom trees for centuries before that. For hundreds of years, naturalists and scientists have tracked flowering time, because it marks the transition between vegetative and reproductive growth, and it is highly influenced by climate change.