17 Facts About Plants

1.

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

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2.

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.

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3.

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

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4.

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

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5.

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

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

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

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9.

Plants carry immune receptors that recognize highly variable pathogen effectors.

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10.

Plants have some of the largest genomes among all organisms.

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11.

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

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12.

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

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13.

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

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14.

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.

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15.

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.

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16.

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

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17.

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

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