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Carnegie Institution for Science: How Do Plants Know How Big to Grow?
June 08, 2022
PALO ALTO, California, June 8 (TNSjou) -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news release:

Organisms grow to fit the space and resources available in their environments, leading to a vast diversity of body sizes and shapes within a population of the same species. What are the genetic and physiological mechanisms that determine how big an organism can grow?

In insects and mammals, the cellular and molecular factors underpinning body size are well e . . .

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