The behavioural ecology of climbing plants [PDF]
AoB PLANTS, 2015 Climbing plants require an external support to grow vertically and enhance light acquisition. Vines that find a suitable support have greater performance and fitness than those that remain prostrate. Therefore, the location of a suitable support is a key process in the life history of climbing plants.
Ernesto Gianoli, Gianoli Ernesto
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Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitational and other ...
James Gallentine +10 more
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The Development of a Stereo Vision System to Study the Nutation Movement of Climbing Plants [PDF]
SensorsClimbing plants, such as common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), exhibit complex motion patterns that have long captivated researchers. In this study, we introduce a stereo vision machine system for the in-depth analysis of the movement of climbing plants,
Diego Rubén Ruiz-Melero +3 more
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Trichomes as a defense mechanism against climbing plants [PDF]
Plant Signaling & BehaviorNon-glandular trichomes are essential in plant defence against herbivores and water loss. However, evolutionary pressures often favor the development of multifunctional traits, suggesting that trichomes may serve multiple ecological roles. I hypothesized
Pavol Prokop
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Mind the Gap: Reach and Mechanical Diversity of Searcher Shoots in Climbing Plants
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Climbing plants need to reach supports and position their leaves for light capture. Vines and lianas develop a large diversity of self-supporting shoots among diverse species and different kinds of attachment.
Tom Hattermann +4 more
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A 2D model to study how secondary growth affects the self-supporting behaviour of climbing plants. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2023 Climbing plants exhibit specialized shoots, called "searchers", to cross spaces and alternate between spatially discontinuous supports in their natural habitats. To achieve this task, searcher shoots combine both primary and secondary growth processes of
Giacomo Vecchiato +6 more
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Diversity, Pattern, and Environmental Drivers of Climbing Plants in China [PDF]
PlantsAs a distinct plant functional group, climbers critically sustain ecosystem structure and function globally. However, little is known about those in China. Here, we examine the diversity and distribution of Chinese climbers at a regional scale.
Haoran Wang, Guangfu Zhang
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Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants: a bio-hybrid approach [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Plant growth is a self-organized process incorporating distributed sensing, internal communication and morphology dynamics. We develop a distributed mechatronic system that autonomously interacts with natural climbing plants, steering their behaviours to
Mostafa Wahby +8 more
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Microspines in tropical climbing plants: a small-scale fix for life in an obstacle course [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2022 Romain Lehnebach +2 more
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Evidence for competition and cooperation among climbing plants. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2011 A plant's best strategy for acquiring resources may often depend on the identity of neighbours. Here, I ask whether plants adjust their strategy to local relatedness: individuals may cooperate (reduce competitiveness) with kin but compete relatively intensely with non-kin. In a greenhouse experiment with Ipomoea hederacea
Biernaskie JM.
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