Sentences with phrase «largest plant trait»

Before they could turn to existing databases, however, they had to deal with an additional problem: Even the largest plant trait database to date — a global woodiness database containing nearly 50,000 species — contains less than 20 % of the more than 300,000 plant species known to science.

Not exact matches

During the process of domestication, plants undergo changes in certain traits that make them more amenable to humans and agriculture such as larger seeds, larger fruits, a compact growth habit, and so on.

That may be because their evolution took place alongside three traits rarely found together: large bodies, body armor, and plant - eating, The New York Times reports.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

Instead, Hedin said, he and his colleagues have found for the first time that root diameter and reliance on fungi — or the lack thereof — are the traits that most consistently characterize the plant community across entire biomes, which are large distinct communities of animals and plants such as a desert, temperate forest or savanna.

Such plants can be isolated using genome - wide association mapping of diverse populations or can be isolated from forward genetic screens, where a subset sample population with the desired traits is selected from a large pool of mutagenized individuals.