Now, in a new study published in Plant, Cell & Environment, researchers from ... its stability fluctuates under different light conditions. The team discovered that two enzymes—SCE1 and COP1 ...

that predispose a plant not only to establishing successfully, but spreading wildly and leaving an outsized impact on its new environment. Additionally, there are some traits, like toxicity ...

The students are creating a glossary of plants and example plantings based on different Metro station environments.

But many different factors can affect those environments. Look at the environment around you. Can you see how plants change throughout the year? How animals survive by eating plants and other animals?

Plants are a very important part of our environment because they provide us with oxygen to breathe and food to eat. Plants can be of different sizes, shapes and colours and they can grow in soil ...

More information: Wen‐Chi Lin et al, COP1‐ERF1‐SCE1 regulatory module fine‐tunes stress response under light‐dark cycle in Arabidopsis, Plant, Cell & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1111/pce.