Scientia Arboricultura

02/08/2023

14/12/2022

As authors it it is suggested that plant water use and spatiotemporal dynamics in plant water uptake are regulated by complex feedbacks and constrained by conflicting demands of a plant's vitality, such as optimizing stomatal control for carbon uptake and allocation, as well as nutrient uptake. Consequently, we believe that improving predictions of its plasticity over time and space will require novel combinations of modelling approaches that will: (i) enhance our knowledge in achieving a process-based understanding of plant water uptake plasticity, and (ii) significantly advance our ability to correctly estimate its spatiotemporal impact on water budgets. In this, we urge the interdisciplinary research.

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15/04/2022

Fair and open forest data source for resource management

Data on tropical forests are in high demand. But ground forest measurements are hard to sustain and the people who make them are extremely disadvantaged compared to those who use them. A new approach to forest data that focuses on the needs of data originators, and ensures users and funders contribute properly (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01738-7).

21/05/2021

Crab a crustacean pest: Crab burrow on the sides of the bunds and live, cut young paddy plants and carry them to their burrows for feeding.....🦀🦀🦀🦀

26/02/2021

The morning calls of Navsari Agricultural University, India

15/01/2021

Low water availability decreases plant tolerance to herbivory.

Low water availability increases plant resistance to herbivory. Water availability causes physiological tradeoffs between plant defense strategies against herbivores.

Source: https://doi.org/10.1016 j.envexpbot.2020.104334

22/10/2020

Plasticity in branching and crown architecture helps explain how tree diversity increases tropical forest production.

Source: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16722

23/07/2020

Portable DNA device can detect tree pests in under two hours

New method tests for harmful species like the Asian gypsy moth and sudden oak death pathogen within two hours.

Source: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226863 https://news.ubc.ca/2020/07/20/portable-dna-device-can-detect-tree-pests-in-under-two-hours/

20/06/2020

Can cash transfer to alleviate poor reduced deforestation ?

An anti poverty reduction scheme for poor fringe villagers has reduced 30 percent forest loss in Indonesia, which has highest rate of deforestation.

Source: doi.10.1126/sciadv.aaz1298

23/05/2020

Scientists uncover plant protein’s role in drought resistance
A team of scientists from Washington State University, Princeton University, and the Université Côte d’Azur have discovered how a little-understood plant protein guides development of tiny cellular structures that regulate the flow of sap from roots to shoots, revealing a potential way to help crops survive in a changing climate.

For more https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/249

Read the paper: Smertenko, T., Turner, G., Fahy, D., Brew‐Appiah, R.A.T., Alfaro‐Aco, R., de Almeida Engler, J., Sanguinet, K.A. and Smertenko, A. (2020) Brachypodium distachyon MAP20 functions in metaxylem pit development and contributes to drought recovery. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.16383

10/05/2020