3. Stem elongation: The direction and intensity of light influence stem elongation. In a phenomenon known as phototropism, plants grow towards a light source. The hormone auxin is responsible for ...

Many of our favourite houseplants began life on the floors of forests or jungles, where light is dappled at best. Others, like cacti or plants with bright-coloured leaves like draecena or croton, came ...

1 Guangxi Zhuang and Yao Ethnic Medicine Key Laboratory, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China 2 Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Instituto de ...

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According to Richard Cheshire and Richard Hull, plant doctors at Patch, there are two main reasons why plants might go wonky or lopsided – because they’re leaning towards the light ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

Phototropism close phototropismGrowth of plant shoots towards the light. is a response to the stimulus of light. In the plant stem, responses to light are known as a positive phototropism ...

Plants grow towards the light and indoor vegetables can become lopsided if you don’t rotate their pots from time to time. Regardless of whether you’re growing veggies under grow lights or in a ...