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What about bamboo? Grows fast grows straight.
For bamboo you see the fast part, but not the slow part. The shoots are prepared over a number of months where all the nodes are made underground. Then when it is ready the space between the nodes is added causing the very fast telescoping action.
> How are plants, with no advanced nervous system, able to gather information about their environment to guide their behavior, planning and flexibly executing movement? Sound, maybe. Or chemoreception. Possibly even eye-like structures. 'eye-like structures'?! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2016.07.008 : Although plants are sessile organisms, almost all of their organs move in space and thus require plant-specific…
Here you go: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science...
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For bamboo you see the fast part, but not the slow part. The shoots are prepared over a number of months where all the nodes are made underground. Then when it is ready the space between the nodes is added causing the very fast telescoping action.
Your description makes bamboo sound like some kind of fascinating alien technology/ organism, I love it.
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutte...
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Here you go: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science...
Not sure if others have the same problem, but where I live (Spain), sci-hub.se is unavailable. sci-hub.st still works though, so mirror is here: https://sci-hub.st/https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science...
I'll say that if neither sci-hub.se nor sci-hub.st load on your connection, they are probably blocked for legal reasons at your place and you should of course neither attempt to switch to another DNS server nor put the following text in your /etc/hosts file to make them resolve:
186.2.163.219 sci-hub.se
186.2.163.201 sci-hub.st
Mammalian cells have contingencies to maintain the growth/accuracy balance, but sometimes the accelerator is hit so hard that it blows through the checks and balances and becomes a tumour. The further the checks and balances are corrupted, the more likely that organism is likely to become a malignant cancer.
> How are plants, with no advanced nervous system, able to gather information about their environment to guide their behavior, planning and flexibly executing movement? Sound, maybe. Or chemoreception. Possibly even eye-like structures. 'eye-like structures'?! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2016.07.008 : Although plants are sessile organisms, almost all of their organs move in space and thus require plant-specific…
> How are plants, with no advanced nervous system, able to gather information about their environment to guide their behavior, planning and flexibly executing movement? Sound, maybe. Or chemoreception. Possibly even eye-like structures. 'eye-like structures'?! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2016.07.008 : Although plants are sessile organisms, almost all of their organs move in space and thus require plant-specific…
What about bamboo? Grows fast grows straight.
Same with the Empress Tree.
It blew over this year (3 years worth of growth). Several of the shoots also blew over. Finally one shoot survived the harsh winds we get occasionally and it’s already ~7-8 feet tall.
and the leaves. They look like something from Jurassic park. They’re HUGE!