17 Facts About Plants

Plants that produce grain, fruit, and vegetables form basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia.

Plants have many cultural and other uses, as ornaments, building materials, writing material and, in great variety, they have been the source of medicines and psychoactive drugs.

Plants that are likely most familiar to us are the multicellular land plants, called embryophytes.

Plants can be so crowded that no single individual produces normal growth, causing etiolation and chlorosis.

Plants that are annual in alpine or temperate regions can be biennial or perennial in warmer climates.

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Plants protect themselves from frost and dehydration stress with antifreeze proteins, heat-shock proteins and sugars .

Plants are continuously exposed to a range of biotic and abiotic stresses.

Plants are capable of a DNA damage response that is a critical mechanism for maintaining genome stability.

Plants carry immune receptors that recognize highly variable pathogen effectors.

Plants have some of the largest genomes among all organisms.

Plants are the primary producers in most terrestrial ecosystems and form the basis of the food web in those ecosystems.

Plants are often the dominant physical and structural component of habitats where they occur.

Plants used in herbalism include ginkgo, echinacea, feverfew, and Saint John's wort.

Plants grown as industrial crops are the source of a wide range of products used in manufacturing, sometimes so intensively as to risk harm to the environment.

Plants are the basis of a multibillion-dollar per year tourism industry, which includes travel to historic gardens, national parks, rainforests, forests with colorful autumn leaves, and festivals such as Japan's and America's cherry blossom festivals.

Plants are often used as memorials, gifts and to mark special occasions such as births, deaths, weddings and holidays.

Plants that produce windblown pollen invoke allergic reactions in people who suffer from hay fever.