Warm Nights: The Silent Killer of Plant Growth
2025-08-23
This article explores the impact of warm nights on plant growth. Plants, like animals, respire, burning sugars for energy. When the sugars produced through photosynthesis are insufficient to meet the demands of respiration, the plant will eventually die. Warm nights accelerate respiration, causing plants to consume more energy, ultimately leading to poor growth and even death. This is particularly detrimental to plants from cool climates. The article uses tomatoes as an example to illustrate the negative effects of warm nights on plant growth and explains the differences in efficiency of various photosynthetic types (C3, C4, CAM) at different temperatures.
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