{"id":30,"date":"2008-12-22T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/?p=30"},"modified":"2013-12-17T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T01:08:23","slug":"field-talk-candy-canes-as-plant-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/field-talk-candy-canes-as-plant-defenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy canes as plant defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding: 3px; margin: 3px; border: 1px #cbfbcf solid;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/podcast\/images\/mike_podcast122208.jpg\" \/>What would make a plant want to stop growing towards the sun and instead grow downward? Michael Wise of the University of Virginia studies a species of goldenrod that grows toward the ground for part of the spring months, creating a morphology that looks a lot like a candy cane. He explains that this \u201ccandy-cane\u201d morphology could increase the plant\u2019s defenses against herbivores. The origin and evolution of such a defense, however, is a mystery when so few plants disguise themselves by this morphology, which he likens to an animal ducking to escape a threat. Read more about Wise\u2019s research in the December issue of Ecology (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1890\/08-0277.1\" target=\"_blank\">www.esajournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1890\/08-0277.1<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would make a plant want to stop growing towards the sun and instead grow downward? Michael Wise of the University of Virginia studies a species of goldenrod that grows toward the ground for part of the spring months, creating<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/field-talk-candy-canes-as-plant-defenses\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[198,197,144,199,163,201,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}