Ideas
on plant
biochemistry and architecture
based
upon logic . .
.
. . .
waiting on reaction and discussion!
The
first
plant was a fusion of bacteria that formed an eukaryotic cell with
photosynthetic capabilities. The plants as we know are the product of
evolution starting from this unicellular plants. By looking at the end
product of evolution with a lot of questions and wonderment, one can
unravel the reason why the plants of today are as they are. Different
ideas are presented here that raveled me and asked for explanation. The
ideas were build by trying to respect logic without creating new
postulates. This is my view. Now I want to know your view and opinion!
Plant hormones: Ideal
metabolic markers molecules
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Why did idole
acetic acid, zeatine, gibberellic acid,
absisic acid,
jasmonic acid and salisilic acid become planthormones? What
is
special
about these molecules? A theory that starts from one cell
without
signaling mechanisms and links the evolution of planthormones with
metabolic processes in the cell. |
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Plant hormones:
functions revised
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Finding an
explanation for the secondary functions of
plant hormones. Starting from coordinated callus growth and
ending with basic plant architecture, linking all with the plant
metabolism. Included are an explanation for the arising of
strigolactone and polyamine as signaling molecules and the role of
hormone conjugates and gibberlines in sustainability. |
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Polyamines: do plants
have feelings?
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What are feelings
and does a plant poses all what is
needed to feel? Polyamines take the leading role and making a
plant careful, reproductive and dormant by influencing the plants
memory. |
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Why apples are round and
pears not.
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A theory on the
shape of two fruits. What made an
apple round and pears not? A story of how plant leaf
characteristics revealed the truth about the advantages of round
apples and pear shaped pears... |
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Fire blight: a disease
or a coincidence?
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What if Erwinia is
not a pathogen but a endophytic
bacteria living in close relation with the plant? Can this
assumption explain the occurence of outbreaks of fire blight?
A
theory on how several coincidences that fall together at certain times
can lead to an explosive growth of an endophytic bacteria. |
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Mycoplasms in trees:
symptoms of burn out?
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What makes some
mycoplasms to proliferate and induce
plant deformation? Could prolonged stress be an explanation
of
all this? Another theory on how an endophyte becomes
pathogenic
by coincidence. |
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Sleeping plaques
awaking: winter and spring of the codling
moth and apple scab
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Trees are of no
interesest for plaques in winter time.
This means that they have to wait until spring .
The question now is: how do they know when to wake up and
start to infect/infest? Or phrased otherwise: what
determines the biofix of scab perithecia development? How do
codling moths sense spring time? |
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The weak spots of a
sensitive plant: when and why to attack a plant.
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Plants are under
attack by different plant pathogens during their growth cycle.
Different pathogens attack at different time points.
The question addressed in this theory is: How big is the role
of plant sensitivity in the strategy of plant pathogens? |
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Branching and flowering
plants: a walk in my garden.
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When I go into my
garden, I often try to find an explanation for the following
question: what drives different types of branching?
Why do the trees in my garden have flowers on different parts
of the trees depending on the species? This story here is a
bundel of small theories and some lose ends. |
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