{"id":48,"date":"2023-04-13T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/?p=48"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:34:26","slug":"into-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/2023\/04\/13\/into-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"into the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bean plant is gaining height and bending toward the sunniest spot of the window. This is an example of phototropism, a hormonal response to light that alters the direction of plant growth. Under this process, auxin in the apical meristem builds on the shadier side of the stem, causing cells to expand and the plant to bend in the opposite direction, towards the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4127-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4127-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4127-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4127-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4127-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4127-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">figure 1. Bean plant exhibiting phototropism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A closer image of the plant displays the leaves, including their opposite arrangement and netted venation. From this perspective, the underside of the leaf, the lower epidermis, is visible. Between this layer and the upper epidermis are the spongy and palisade mesophyll, which contain the chloroplasts. The final top layer is the waxy cuticle, which functions in reducing water loss from the leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4128-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4128-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4128-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4128-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4128-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4128-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> figure 2. Close up of bean leaf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bean plant is gaining height and bending toward the sunniest spot of the window. This is an example of phototropism, a hormonal response to light that alters the direction of plant growth. Under this process, auxin in the apical meristem builds on the shadier side of the stem, causing cells to expand and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/2023\/04\/13\/into-the-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">into the sun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"thelms","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/author\/thelms\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}