{"id":199051,"date":"2024-11-09T05:21:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-reasons-flowers-wilt-could-explain-how-plants-spend-and-save-their-energy"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:21:53","slug":"the-reasons-flowers-wilt-could-explain-how-plants-spend-and-save-their-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-reasons-flowers-wilt-could-explain-how-plants-spend-and-save-their-energy","title":{"rendered":"The reasons flowers wilt could explain how plants spend (and save) their energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-reasons-flowers-wilt-could-explain-how-plants-spend-and-save-their-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/plb.13720\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> in the journal <i>Plant Biology<\/i> by researchers from Macquarie University and international collaborators has shown for the first time that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plants<\/a> reuse resources from wilting flowers to support future reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author Honorary Professor Graham Pyke from Macquarie University says the findings help explain a common but poorly understood plant process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research delivers the first direct demonstration that plants can salvage resources from wilting flowers and reuse these resources to promote future reproduction,\u201d Professor Pyke says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the journal Plant Biology by researchers from Macquarie University and international collaborators has shown for the first time that plants reuse resources from wilting flowers to support future reproduction. Lead author Honorary Professor Graham Pyke from Macquarie University says the findings help explain a common but poorly understood plant process. \u201cOur research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}