Plasticity - changes in feature of plants due to environment

 

• Plants  are capable of responding  to the environment during their  life and develop different kinds of structures in their morphological feature.

• This capability of plants  is termed plasticity. Heterophyllous conditions  in leaves of cotton coriander and larkspur are examples of plasticity.

• Larkspur shows plasticity in their  shapes of leaves . The shape of leaves differ in juvenile and maturation phase in larkspur.

• In buttercup there is a difference in the shapes of leaves produced in water and air.

• The example of Plant Plasticity due to  environmental factors is also seen in  Buttercup, coriander and cotton.

• On the other hand, plasticity refers to the ability of an organism to change its phenotype expression with the different kinds of environment. 

• Plasticity is an important factor that makes  plants able  to adapt in their surroundings.

• Plasticity also  provides fitness  and aloof the  negative impact of the environment on plants..

• Due to the plasticity, plants adjust themselves in  a particular environment by making changes in rate of growth, development, and metabolism.

• It  also promotes the initiation of the cell division from any tissue of the plant and regenerate the lost organs and to undergo several developmental pathways for its survival.

• Plasticity may be physiological, morphological, and anatomical. These types of plasticity have a different role for development of new  adaptation against the environmental changes. 

• The physiological  plasticity promotes the growth  of  plants in  variable environments.

• Physiological plasticity  develops more capabilities in plants  to give response  against the environmental factor than the  morphological and anatomical plasticity.

• We can say physiological plasticity has a primary role in a stressful environment  than morphological  plasticity play a secondary role.