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UPDATING DARWINISM. "The world's top biologists have met to discuss whether we should update evolution" "Bringing Darwin's theory into the 21st century." http://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-top-biologists-have-met-to-discuss-whether-we-should-update-evolution View in LinkedIn

SINKS TRUMP SOURCES. "A semelparous plant dies because its sink tissues kill its source organs by a kind of starvation, by induction of senescence in response to nutrient diversion or by export of a ‘death hormone'." (Semelparous organisms have only one reproductive episode before death). https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn

CODE BIRTH. "Stereochemical match is aided by codonic or anticodonic triplets in the corresponding binding sites although an open question is the accuracy when all amino acids and aptamers are present in the same milieu. Should this mechanism turn out to be robust, it offers a convenient road toward initial establishment of the code." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10104.full View in LinkedIn

SOURCES. "Organs that supply the precursors for sink metabolism are sources. Sources and sinks communicate through the vascular system. During development of the endosperm of cereal grains and the parenchyma of potato tubers, large amounts of starch are accumulated. These organs are supplied via the phloem with assimilated C mostly fixed by current photosynthesis." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn

CODE ORIGIN. "Remarkably, there is recent indication that a group of amino acids could be stereochemically recognized by, and possibly charged to, simple RNA molecules, as experiments on artificial selection for RNA aptamers show." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10104.full View in LinkedIn

SINKS. "A sink is defined as a net importer of nutrients (nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulfur (S) and other minerals) and assimilates carbon (C) derived directly or indirectly from photosynthesis. Developing seeds, bulbs, tubers and other structures that accumulate storage compounds are strong sinks, as are expanding leaves and branches during vigorous vegetative growth." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn

FOREST TURNOVER. "Molecules, cells, phytomers, individuals and even whole floras typically turn over. Turnover is defined as flux through a pool. In the case of leaf turnover, the pool is the canopy. Newly initiated leaves are recruited to the canopy, grow and mature, become senescent and ultimately die and leave the pool." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn

DUBIOUS. "Because a single plant is structured as a population of phytomers, it appears to be more like a colonial organism, such as a coral, rather than an individual. Closer examination reveals this resemblance to be perhaps superficial at best." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn

UNIFIED SIBLING RIVALRY. "Individual plants behave as competing populations of genetically equivalent organs integrated through source–sink interactions, a mode of organization that ensures adaptation to heterogeneous environments." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn

MODULAR BODY PLAN. "Also of special significance for ageing is the body plan. Unlike animals, plants develop by the open-ended repetitive proliferation of homologous structural units. The vast range of plant form and life cycle arises by variations in the spatial arrangement of phytomers, or in the timing of initiation, development and senescence of these modules." https://lnkd.in/dPac2Jv View in LinkedIn