{"id":833,"date":"2004-02-17T18:38:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:13","slug":"botany-why-flowers-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"botany: why flowers bloom in the spring, tra-la"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The scientific basis for springtime is now better  understood, thanks to a new study from the Max Planck Institute for  Plant Breeding in Germany and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in  Israel. Reporting in the Feb. 13 <em>Science,<\/em> Federico Valverde and his  colleagues explain the molecular mechanism by which plants flower in  response to light. Conducting experiments on the small, flowering plant,  Arabidopsis, they showed how day length and light quality affect  Constans, a protein that promotes flowering. The researchers found that  light stabilizes the protein, and that, in the dark, the protein is  degraded. So, as the hours of daylight increase in the spring, more of  the protein is maintained, until enough accumulates to activate the  genes that trigger flowering. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 2\/17\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific basis for springtime is now better understood, thanks to a new study from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Germany and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Reporting in the Feb. 13 Science, Federico Valverde &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}