we are starting off this Edition
with a question, can a plant remember
does it have memorizing abilities ? .
this may sound more like a line from a
poem, than a scientific inquiry. but fresh
analysis suggests that , plants can pass
on climate adaptation trips to their
offsprings
from devastating floods to Rising
temperatures. the climate crisis is
changing natural habitats all over the
world.
to survive many plants have been forced
to quickly adapt.
this is according to new research
published in the trends in plant science
journal.
but how exactly do plants adapt to
climate change and remember these
adaptations.
it has been well established that
changes in the environment Force animals
to change that alters their behavior
like hunting hibernation patterns
habitats . but now you must be wondering
plants are rooted to a spot, how can they
change.
well, they also bring a change in their
behavior. plants don’t make memories in
the same way that we human beings and
other animals do. but they nonetheless
remember rather than storing memories in
the brains .of course they store them in
sophisticated cellular and molecular
signaling Networks.
researchers call this a somatic memory,
which is stored in the plant’s body.
for example Winters have become warmer
and shorter in many regions, and during
the cold weather plants Orient their
flowering time as well. so a plant can
now remember to delay its flowering when
it is warmer,
and this mechanism allows plants to
avoid flowering in periods . where they
have less chances to reproduce.
and this nutrient can be passed down to
The Offspring through something
researchers call epigenetics. unlike
genetic changes, epigenetic changes do
not change the DNA sequence instead they
can change , how an organism reads a DNA
sequence .and according to the authors of
the research epigenetic modifications
are inherited , which contributes to the
long-term adaptation of plant species
due to climate change.