AI is crying out for regulation, while virologists doing gain-of-function research take the opposite tack. Why?
6 days ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
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I have a question about fruiting trees/shrubs and drought. Do these type of plants ever compartmentalize their fruit production? What I mean by that, is might they focus fruit production on on or two secondary stems and give up on the extra supply needs for the rest of the plant? Our pomegranate did this this year and I was wondering if it was a fluke or a strategy.
Well, that is a good question. The answer is a definite maybe. Developing fruit becomes a resource sink, and it may be that the resource stream to the fruit starves other branches. However, often plants will abort fruit under stress. Without conducting some type of experiment, it would be difficult to know which is the case.
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