Latest finding have showed that scientists have found a new way to discover if the global climate change will happen sooner or later. And it definitely sounds reasonable considering most of the facts they present with the case. So I was reading the article and it was saying that plants near the equator are more affected by the climate change than most places around the world because of the annual heat near the mid line of the planet.
So this event was studied by an Aussie named Angela Moles and she lived near the equator. Also for this she will receive the ‘Australian Institute of Policy and Science Tall Poppy award’ for her research on the subject. So I was like, are you joking? Seed size and plants around the world are actually constantly affected by the climate even through the changing seasons. This was so fascinating but then it can kind of be assumed about the study after you realize what the actual research was based on.
Something else that this lady brought up that proves a good point would be that further research would help us ‘pinpoint’ the traits that would either help the plant species or destroy them in future cases. With over 11,000 plants being studied for this experimental research type thing, they concluded that the plants that had the biggest seeds over all were located in the general areas of land near the equator; concluding that these plants are tropical.
Yeah, so surprisingly the seeds were over 300 the times the size of seeds that were over 60 degrees latitude away form the equators climate. So imagine looking at the seed we do every day like those of dandelions or poppies and then magnify that to where it takes up over fifty percent of your vision… THAT’S HUGE RIGHT? I know it’s outrageous! So just reading a little farther she further looks into the biggest and smallest seeds ever recorded. Supposedly the biggest is from the ‘double-coconut plant’, which can way up to about sixty pounds or so, and the smallest is of the ‘orchid’, which looks pretty much like dust in the wind and weighs like a millionth of a gram. So there is definitely is giant range of how big seeds can get for plants around the world, but the largest ones are in some way habitant to the climate of the equator.
I guess to go farther with the presented research; she decided to go backpacking around the world. Going from Asia to as far south as her thin budget would let her. So since she didn’t have all the much to go off of, mostly money-wise, she almost depended on the locals of the area and trained them as much as she could and knew, and marked as many plants as necessary to expand the experimental value of the project. Luckily though she has been given grants to significant amounts of money in grants to keep on furthering he findings. So good for her and hopefully this will help the society as a whole in the long run especially since plants provide the human species with a good chunk of our food and diet
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