Plant Succession
Many plant communities are not self-sustaining. A field in the temperate deciduous forest biome will remain a field only as long as it is grazed by animals or mowed regularly.
Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants.
Plants
multicellular, eukaryotic life forms of the kingdom plantae.
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Angiosperms, flowering plants, are divided into two groups: monocots and dicots.
A (plant) balanced diet
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen are considered the essential elements. Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphorous are obtained from the soil and are the primary macronutrients.
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Definition of plant :
Any of the members of the kingdom Plantae typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious nervous or sensory organs and possessing cellulose cell walls and usually capable of ...
The application of genetic analysis to development of plant lines better suited for human purposes.
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Plant Cell Wall
One of the most important distinguishing features of plant cells is the presence of a cell wall.
Plant Basics
If you're not a microbe and you're not an animal, chances are you are a plant. There are loads of species of plants on Earth.
Plant Genome Research Begins a New Voyage of Discovery
Plant Genome II was held January 24-27, 1994 in San Diego.
Plantae (plants)
Cell structure: only multicellular, eukaryotic; large vacuoles
Cell wall: cellulose
Nutrition: autotrophic (photosynthetic)
Growth is restricted to meristems (layers/patches of dividing cells) ...
Plant Basics
Plants are important to all life on earth. They are capable of producing their own food and they provide food for other living organisms.
Plants
Angiosperm Phylogeny website glossary:Glossary of botanical terms.
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Plant Pest Act (PPA). See U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Plant Variety Act (PVA). See U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Plaque. A clear spot on a lawn of bacteria or cultured cells where cells have been Iysed by viral infection.
Plant Geography the study of the geographic distribution of plant species
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C3 plant
A plant that uses the Calvin cycle for the initial steps that incorporate CO2 into organic material, forming a three-carbon compound as the first stable intermediate.
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The Plantar Ligaments (ligamenta accessoria plantaria; glenoid ligaments of Cruveilhier)."The plantar ligaments are thick, dense, fibrous structures.
C3 plant A plants that lacks the C4 pathway.
C4 pathway A means by which four-carbon compounds, such as oxaloacetate and malate, carry carbon dioxide from mesophyll cells in contact with the air to bundle-sheath cells, ...
Host plant resistance: The relative amount of heritable qualities possessed by a plant that reduces the degree of damage to the plant by a pest or pests.
Hyperparasite: A parasite whose host is another parasite.
Once plant has the gene, how and where is it expressed?
Once you have transformed corn plant and you've gotten the gene construct into the plant, the next question is to understand if it is expressed, and if so, how.
summer planting. A system of strawberry culture in which planting occurs in summer and fruit production begins the following spring.
Plants are vital to humankind's existence. From providing the oxygen we breathe to the foods we eat, plants are a renewable resource upon which our existence depends.
Plants, some algae, and some bacteria obtain their energy from light. The light energy is used to bond molecules of carbon dioxide together to form sugar (glucose). The energy is stored in glucose. This process is called photosynthesis.
Plants get their green color from the chlorophyll which is found inside of their cells. Plants use chlorophyll to collect energy from the light of the Sun. They then use this energy to create food.
plants with seeds enclosed by carpels, that is, ovaries; contrast to gymnosperm
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
A flowering plant. Seeds are enclosed by a matured ovary (fruit).
Plantae One of the five kingdoms of life; characterized by being eukaryotic and multicellular, and having rigid cell walls and chloroplasts.
Plantar The sole of the foot.
Plants evolved from ancient green algae over 400 million years ago. Both groups use chlorophyll a and b as photosynthetic pigments. In addition, plants and green algae are the only groups to store starch in their chloroplasts.
A plant species in which male and female organs occur in the same flower of a single individual (compare monoecious).
An animal with both male and female sex organs.
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Sperm
The male gamete.
In plants the trait self-incompatibility is often inhertited by a single gene (S) with different alleles (e.g. S1, S2).
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Fertilization
The union of the male and female gametes; in plants pollination.
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- a plant widely grown for its industrial oil in the 1940's. In the 1960's breeding efforts led to the removal of two compounds, erucic acid and glucosinolates, changing the plant to an edible oilseed now called canola.
The Plant kingdom is composed of multicellular photosynthetic autotrophs.
When plants are used, the process is referred to as phytoremediation. Phytoextraction is a technique whereby plants are used to bioaccumulate non-degradable materials, typically metals, which are thus removed from soil, ...
Cell Wall (plant cells only): Plant cells have a rigid, protective cell wall made up of polysaccharides. In higher plant cells, that polysaccharide is usually cellulose.
Research in plant and fungal biochemistry and molecular biology at Horticulture Research International and Rothamsted Experimental Station, University of California, King's College, London and University of Surrey.
Xenotransplant
Transplantation of tissue or organs between organisms of different species, genus, or family. A common example is the use of pig heart valves in humans.
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thalloid -- Plants which have no roots, stems, or leaves are called thalloid, such as liverworts and hornworts.
Herbivore: A plant-eating animal. Sea urchins re a good example of a marine herbivore as they feed on kelp. See also heterotroph, primary consumer.
Bt corn: A corn plant that has been developed though biotechnology so that the plant tissues express a protein derived from a bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, which is toxic to some insects but non-toxic to humans and other mammals.
Outside (nonliving) factors which can cause harmful effects to plants, such as soil conditions, drought, extreme temperatures. Abzyme. See Catalytic antibody. Adaptive radiation.
Annual: a plant with a lifespan of one year. Biennial: a plant with a lifespan of two years. Often only flowers and sets seed during the second year.
Cell wall - multi-layered, sturdy structure composed of cellulose that provides plants and other organisms with their rigidity
Centrioles - essential tubular organelles found near the nucleus in pairs that aid in cellular division ...
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the central information storage system of most animals and plants, and even some viruses.
Haploid A single set of chromosomes (half the full set of genetic material), present in the egg and sperm cells of animals and in the egg and pollen cells of plants. Human beings have 23 chromosomes in their reproductive cells. Compare diploid.
Angiosperm: The most recently evolved and the largest group of plants whose reproductive organs are in their flowers (flowering plants).
Botany is the scientific study of plants. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and evolution of plant life.
Physiological studies have traditionally been divided into plant physiology and animal physiology, but some principles of physiology are universal, no matter what particular organism is being studied.
Herbivore. An organism that consumes plants
Harmful algal bloom. A bloom of (usually) planktonic microalgae belonging to a strain of a species that has a toxic harmful to marine organisms or humans consuming marine organisms.
Chimaera (chimera) An animal (or plant) made up from a mixture of cells from more than one species. Also (in human genetics), an individual made up from cells derived from two or more zygotes.
Geminivirus
One of the two groups of DNA viruses that infect plants, the members of which have potential as cloning vectors for some species of higher plants.
Mitochondrion (MITE-oh-KON-dree-un) (plural: mitochondria) The cell's power plant; the organelle that converts energy from food into ATP, fueling the cell.
The use of biological organisms such as plants or microbes to aid in removing hazardous substances from an area.
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TRANSGENIC - An animal (usually a mouse) or plant into which a foreign gene has been introduced in the germ line. An example: transgenic mice expressing the human receptor for poliovirus are susceptible to human polioviruses.
carbon fixation cycle (Calvin-Benson cycle) - process by which green plants incorporate carbon atoms from atmospheric carbon dioxide into sugars. This is the second stage of photosynthesis.
embryology - study of embryogenesis, the development of animals and plants from fertilization to birth/hatching.
[Gr. zoon - animal; planktos - wandering]. Minute aquatic animals that drift freely in the plankton, feeding mainly on phytoplankton (plant-like organisms) and having no locomotory structures.
A virus is little more than a strand of genetic material (DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein known as capsid. Viruses do not carry out any metabolic processes and need to invade a living host (animal, plant, bacterium or fungus).
The study on the origin of diseases and plagues is also answerable by means of Biology, for example the etiology of cancer, infections, functional problems, the damage to fruits, the pathologies of farm animals, plants, trees, etc.
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