Understanding natural crop defences
Sunday, March 1, 2009 - 09:50
in Mathematics & Economics
Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out-compete their neighbours for light to grow, or, invest directly in defence against hungry insects. Now, an international team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Institute of Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas Vinculadas a la Agronomia (IFEVA) has discovered how plants weigh the tradeoffs and redirect their energies accordingly...
Read the whole article on Science Centric
More from Science Centric
Related
- Understanding natural crop defensesFri, 27 Feb 2009, 16:57:08 EST
- Scientists discover how to send insects off the scent of cropsThu, 24 Sep 2009, 9:44:11 EDT
- Biologists identify genes controlling rhythmic plant growthTue, 16 Sep 2008, 6:21:54 EDT
- How plants fine tune their natural chemical defensesSun, 7 Sep 2008, 13:29:25 EDT
- Flies avoid a plant's poison using a newly identified taste mechanismTue, 30 Jun 2009, 8:36:42 EDT