Most cues such as temperature or water availability are quite variable: autumn can be warm; a late snow could fall in spring; also summer might be unusually cool and wet. So the only reliable cue is day length: longer days always mean that spring and summer are coming; shorter days forete...
is classified as a short night plant because it flowers only if the night is shorter than eleven hours (its critical period), and the cocklebur is a long night plant because it flowers only if an uninterrupted darkness lasts more than 8.5 hours. Both of these plants will flower with ten-h...
The climate of Britain is a classified as a temperate,with warm summers,cool winters and plentiful precipitation throughout the year. its climate is generally mild and temperate due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and the warming of the waters around the British Isles by the gulf stream...
Parents should be aware that too much apple or pear juice could create health issues for their children. Because both types of juice are high in fruit sugar that is classified as free fructose, less of the sugar is absorbed into the small intestine (肠). The result of this action can lea...
Asweet potato(Ipomoea batatas) is a stem tuber that grows in the ground, and, as such, it’s also classified as a root vegetable. However, sweet potatoes aren’t actually potatoes at all. They don’t belong to the potato (Solanum tuberosum) family, but rather to the bindweed or mornin...
(including asters, potatoes, soy beans, goldenrod and cockleburs) flower when the length of uninterrupted darkness is longer than the species' specific critical period. Thus spinach is classified as a short night plant because it flowers only if the night is shorter than eleven hours (its ...
If you ever grew potatoes, then you must have seen the infestation of small, extraterrestrial insects crawling on the surface of leaves and near the roots. They can be quite a mess for your potato plants. They are known aspotato bugs, and if you have questions hovering in your mind, like...
Phytochemicals were originally classified as vitamins: Flavonoids were known as vitamin P, indoles and glucosinolates were vitamin U, etc. But it was later found that phytochemicals are not vitamins at all. Phytochemicals are not necessary to make our body function, nor do we get a disease result...
(including asters, potatoes, soy beans, goldenrod and cockleburs) flower when the length of uninterrupted darkness is longer than the species' specific critical period. Thus spinach is classified as a short night plant because it flowers only if the night is shorter than eleven hours (its ...
is characteristically less like a fruit and more like a potato. If the “bread” part of its name conjured ideas of carbohydrates, well you wouldn't be wrong. Breadfruit is a starchy, carbohydrate fruit equivalent to staple field crops such as rice, maize, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. ...