SBE Seminar Series: Dr. Jess Gersony, Smith College
Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions 5710 Norman Smith Hall, Orono, ME, United StatesTITLE: Tangled up in blue: Understanding carbon movement in trees during water stress ABSTRACT: Plants take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and convert it into sugars through photosynthesis. Once carbon dioxide is in the form of sugar, it is then transported all throughout the plant through the “sugar highway” known as the phloem to […]