Living · 6 pages · 12 min
How shade is a kind of drought for a sun plant
A sun plant in deep shade runs short of sugar even when the soil is wet.
When the purchase is complete, return to the original window. It will refresh.
From the opening
Shade is a kind of drought for a sun plant because the plant is short of the input it needs to make sugar, even when the soil is wet. Water drought starves a plant of water, and deep shade starves a sun-adapted plant of usable light, so photosynthesis falls toward the cost of staying alive and little surplus is left to grow on. The opening covers light shortage with wet soil, photosynthesis near the cost of living, and stretching does not fix deep shade.
The rest of the brief — the later sections and the reading notes — opens after Stripe confirms payment.
Inside
- Light shortage with wet soil
- Photosynthesis near the cost of living
- Stretching does not fix deep shade
- A tree can add real dryness too
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- The light compensation point in sun-adapted plants
- Carbon balance under deep shade versus water deficit