The latest example to demonstrate such comes from a paper recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, where Lu et al. (2016) investigated the role of atmospheric CO2 in causing the satellite -
observed vegetative greening of the planet that has occurred over the past few decades (1960 - 2015).
Not exact matches
During brain stimulation, 13 people with minimal consciousness and two people in a
vegetative state showed signs of awareness that were
observed neither before the stimulation nor after the sham treatment.
Transition from
vegetative to reproductive development was also
observed by 11 DAS (Supplemental Figure 2E); however, subsequent developmental progression was delayed after 14 DAS in the mutant.
The severe
vegetative phenotypes
observed in PCZ - treated seedlings (e.g., dwarf and erect leaves) likely result from systematic inhibition of BR biosynthesis, as opposed to the inflorescence - specific loss affected by bsl1.
Consistent with the presence of a paralog predominantly expressed in leaves, we did not
observe altered accumulation of sterol and BR intermediates in the
vegetative tissue (Table 1).
In consequence of these two benefits, Lu et al. hypothesized that rising atmospheric CO2 is playing a significant role in the
observed greening, especially in moisture - limited areas where soil water content is a limiting factor in
vegetative growth and function.