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What New Insights into Plants' Defense Mechanisms Can Be Gained by Studying Their Interactions with Their Habitat?.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (14 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Latest Thinking, [date of publication not identified]
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- In the past decades plants were viewed primarily as "growth machines" that produce oxygen and biomaterials. The research projects presented in this video look at plants more as organisms that have to solve the challenges of life. The studies analyzed the reaction of plants to certain ecological interactions in a manner that brings together molecular biology and ecology. This reunion of biological sub-disciplines enables scientists to understand gene functions that are the basis for the elaborated chemical responses to environmental stimuli that native plants have developed over the course of their evolution. As IAN T. BALDWIN explains, this new perspective on plants is helpful to bring "ecological sophistication" back to cultivated plants in order to make them more resistant to harsh habitats.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 24, 2020).
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