Concepts for Understanding Fruit Trees Dejong Theodore
Concepts for Understanding Fruit Trees Dejong Theodore Anyone who observes fruit trees may wonder how or why they behave in specific ways. Some produce many flowers and small immature fruit only to…
Specifikacia Concepts for Understanding Fruit Trees Dejong Theodore
Concepts for Understanding Fruit Trees Dejong Theodore
Anyone who observes fruit trees may wonder how or why they behave in specific ways. Some produce many flowers and small immature fruit only to drop most of the fruit later on; others grow more on their sunny side than their shady side. Some trees grow upright while others are more spreading in habit.
Trees are not in control of what they do. It is common to ascribe such behavior to the tree as a whole and state that trees preferentially "allocate" resources to specific organs.This, however, is the wrong approach to understanding tree functioning and behavior. What trees do and how they function is shaped by the individual organs that make up the tree, not by the tree as a whole.
The genetic code only indirectly determines the habit, structure and behavior of a tree by defining the behavioral and functional limits of the component organs, tissues and cells. Unlike animals that have
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