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  2. Mucilage - Wikipedia

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    The amount and viscosity of the mucilage are important nattō characteristics, contributing to nattō's unique taste and smell. The mucilage of two kinds of insectivorous plants , sundew ( Drosera ) [ 9 ] and butterwort ( Pinguicula ) , [ 10 ] is used for the traditional production of a variant of the yogurt -like Swedish dairy product called ...

  3. Plant perception (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. [1] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, parasite infestation, disease, physical disruption ...

  4. Nectar - Wikipedia

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    Nectar is a viscous, sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection.

  5. Plant physiology - Wikipedia

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    A germination rate experiment. Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. [1]Plant physiologists study fundamental processes of plants, such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed ...

  6. Endosperm - Wikipedia

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    The endosperm is a tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following double fertilization. It is triploid (meaning three chromosome sets per nucleus) in most species, [1] which may be auxin-driven. [2] It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it can also contain oils and protein. This ...

  7. Floral scent - Wikipedia

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    The second chemical class is composed of the fatty acid derivatives synthesized from acetyl-CoA, most of which are known as green leaf volatiles, because they are also emitted by vegetative parts (i.e.: leaves and stems) of plants, and sometimes higher in abundance than from floral tissue.

  8. NASA Study on Air-Purifying Houseplants Debunked: Here's the ...

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    As Bryan E. Cummings and Michael S. Waring, the authors of the Drexel study, found, you would need 10–100 plants per square meter to clear the air in the way the NASA study reported.

  9. Ethylene (plant hormone) - Wikipedia

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    Plants can be induced to flower either by treatment with the gas in a chamber, or by placing a banana peel next to the plant in an enclosed area. Chrysanthemum flowering is delayed by ethylene gas, [ 46 ] and growers have found that carbon dioxide 'burners' and the exhaust fumes from inefficient glasshouse heaters can raise the ethylene ...