Techniques explained include a basic busbar cost analysis, in which all plant costs are stated on a levelized cost basis; a discounted pro forma analysis, in which project internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV) are derived for a specific power project; and least cost ...
a moderate increase in air temperature leads to faster plant development and a shorter crop duration and consequently a reduction in cumulative light perception and assimilation over the plant’s life cycle. In addition, disturbance of fundamental processes such as carbon assimilation, respiration and ...
Additionally, crop performance can be related to an industrial procedure through which the crop has to be processed. We propose here a general definition of plant performance as being an association of several traits that need to be monitored with regard to the plant life cycle or improved throug...
The plasticity of plant phenotypes cannot be simply explained by genetic changes such as point mutations, deletions, insertions and gross chromosomal rearrangements. Since many environmental stresses persist for only one or several plant generations, other mechanisms of adaptation must exist. The ...
Values in bracket are eigenvalues explained by the Principal Component (PC). Colors indicate SynComs used and shapes indicate flg22 treatment. g, Simpson diversity index of the corresponding experiments performed with pWER::FLS2-GFP plants. n=total number of biological samples collected from three ...
Here it is shown that the expression of AtHB7 and AtHB12 exhibited almost opposite patterns along the Arabidopsis life cycle when plants were grown in standard (i.e. growth chamber) conditions. In early developmental stages (14- to 21-day-old plants), AtHB12 mRNA was abundant while AtHB7 ...
Anthropocene, the rate of plant speciation is much lower than the rate of plant extinction [128]. In all, the primary cause of plant extinction is the uncontrolled exploitation of the Earth’s resources in order to maintain human population growth and quality of life [93,129,130]....
The transpiration pull is explained by the Cohesion–Adhesion Theory, with the water potential gradient between the leaves and the atmosphere providing the driving force for water movement. The water potential of the atmosphere is dependent on the relative humidity and temperature of the air, and ca...
Model-averaged importance of various predictor variables for warming effects on root:shoot ratio [i.e.,RR(R/S)].bThe proportion of total variance ofRR(R/S) is explained by biomes, plant community composition, and mycorrhizal fungi type (MFT). The variables with an importance value >0.8 wer...
germinating seedlings, yet seedlings still exhibit many of the behaviors of mature plants. If the function of plant consciousness is to allow plants to make important “decisions,” why would it be active in mature plants but not in young seedlings, the most vulnerable part of the life cycle?