How plants 'feel' the temperature rise
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 07:42
in Biology & Nature
Plants are incredibly temperature sensitive and can perceive changes of as little as one degree Celsius. Now, a report in the January 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, shows how they not only 'feel' the temperature rise, but also coordinate an appropriate response - activating hundreds of genes and deactivating others; it turns out it's all about the way that their DNA is packaged...