{"id":40928,"date":"2024-09-03T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40928"},"modified":"2024-09-03T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:05:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/09\/03\/word-of-the-day-985\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circumnutation<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Nutation<\/b>\u00a0refers to the bending movements of stems, roots, leaves and other\u00a0plant organs<\/a>\u00a0caused by differences in growth in different parts of the organ.\u00a0Circumnutation<\/b>\u00a0refers specifically to the circular movements often exhibited by the tips of growing plant stems, caused by repeating cycles of differences in growth around the sides of the elongating stem.\u00a0Nutational movements are usually distinguished from ‘variational’ movements caused by temporary differences in the water pressure inside plant cells (turgor<\/a>). [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a new one on me. Noted in “The surprising way sunflowers work together to get enough light<\/em><\/a>,” Leah Crane, NewScientist<\/em><\/strong> (24 August 2024, paywall):<\/p>\n

Sunflowers move in a way that helps their neighbours. The seemingly random motion of the plants\u2019 roots and shoots actually minimises shade cover in crowded environments, ensuring that all of them get enough light to grow.<\/p>\n

Scientists have known about this plant motion, known as\u00a0circumnutation,<\/a>\u00a0for centuries, but its purpose has always been elusive. \u201cIn climbing plants, it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s a search process, searching for a new stick to twine on. But in other plants, it\u2019s not clear if it\u2019s a bug or a feature,\u201d says\u00a0Yasmine Meroz<\/a>\u00a0at Tel Aviv University in Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Circumnutation: Nutation\u00a0refers to the bending movements of stems, roots, leaves and other\u00a0plant organs\u00a0caused by differences in growth in different parts of the organ.\u00a0Circumnutation\u00a0refers specifically to the circular movements often exhibited by the tips of growing plant stems, caused by repeating cycles of differences in growth around the sides of the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40929,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40928\/revisions\/40929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}