Phenotyping, which involves assessing observable plant characteristics, is crucial for understanding plant development and response to environmental stresses. Traditional methods are often cumbersome, costly, and destructive, limiting research scope and scale. A new system of affordable, mobile, and high-throughput phenotyping tools is making the technology accessible to a wider range of users.
Plants and the animals that eat them have evolved together in fascinating ways, creating a dynamic interplay of survival strategies. Many plants have developed physical and chemical defenses to fend off herbivores. A well-known strategy in flowering plants is to produce nectar to attract ant bodyguards. Recent research explores the evolution of this same defense strategy in ferns.
TCAT has recently announced its summer service schedule, which features time changes and reductions to several routes. They have also shared that some routes will be affected by Cornell’s graduation