The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
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Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30m) in just 8 weeks.
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To learn more, start your googling with these keywords:
Rhizome: a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and roots at intervals
Vacuole: an organelle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid, whose main purpose in plants is to maintain pressure against the cell wall
Microfibrils: fiber-like strands consisting of glycoproteins and cellulose that make up the cell wall structure
Auxin: a plant hormone which causes the elongation of cells in shoots and is involved in regulating plant growth
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Fastest growing plant record – https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-growing-plant
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Bamboo Shoot Timelapse – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Pgqf0rTbY
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References:
Velasquez, Silvia Melina, et al. “Auxin and cellular elongation.” Plant Physiology 170.3 (2016): 1206-1215.
Nonami, Hiroshi. “Plant water relations and control of cell elongation at low water potentials.” Journal of Plant Research 111.3 (1998): 373-382.
Wei, Qiang, et al. “Cellular and molecular characterizations of a slow-growth variant provide insights into the fast growth of bamboo.” Tree physiology 38.4 (2018): 641-654.
Li, Long, et al. “The association of hormone signalling genes, transcription and changes in shoot anatomy during moso bamboo growth.” Plant biotechnology journal 16.1 (2018): 72-85.
Gritsch, Cristina Sanchis, Gunnar Kleist, and Richard J. Murphy. “Developmental changes in cell wall structure of phloem fibres of the bamboo Dendrocalamus asper.” Annals of Botany 94.4 (2004): 497-505.
Gamuyao, Rico, et al. “Hormone distribution and transcriptome profiles in bamboo shoots provide insights on bamboo stem emergence and growth.” Plant and Cell Physiology 58.4 (2017): 702-716.
Wysocki, William P., et al. “Evolution of the bamboos (Bambusoideae; Poaceae): a full plastome phylogenomic analysis.” BMC evolutionary biology 15.1 (2015): 50.
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they just turned the random tick speed up
I’ve already read the wof series from 1-13
As someone who read the first set of Wings of Fire books, I salute you on your description! It’s both smart and funny!
Soooo…. Bamboo is related to rice :3 that new thank you for teaching us that
2:06 from someone who’s read the entire series I also recommend wings of fire it’s great
No wonder Bamboo is used to create scaffolding in minecraft
Not even 3 whole minutes and the last minute was an ad, fantastic
Bamboo be like:
Im speed
*Maybe I could eat blades of grass*
well he ain’t entirely wrong
Fast food
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each time we learn something new
i love panda exprasyou you love it????
you should’ve mentioned another freaky fact of bamboo biology: they flower only once in their life and then promptly die
If trees die bambos Will save us
My neighbor had so many of those that they were taller than my house and it over grew my fence
Interesting. Have a blessed day
*LAUGHS IN TOTURE*
My garden disappeared in bamboo ahah
I like to eat bamboo shoots..especially cooking chicken curry with bamboo shoots..taste amazing
The world record for the fastest growing plant belongs to certain species of the 45 genera of bamboo, which have been found to grow at up to 91 cm (35 in) per day or at a rate of 0.00003 km/h (0.00002 mph). According to the RHS Dictionary of Gardening, there are approximately 1,000 species of bamboos.
What about Kudzu, the most destructive invasive species ever
"Giving pandas a new meaning to the term ‘fast food’."
Why does this sentence include the word ‘pandas’? It doesn’t make much sense.
Good news we can start bamboo farms for wood instead of destroying forest
Textin 500500 doesn’t seem to work in Australia
Did you know pandas eat the stuff INSIDE bamboo not the actual bamboo
yes
the fact bamboo is actually just grass really changed my idea on what they were
If only Forrests re-grew this fast =(
No wonder why in my old house I have bamboo growing in my backyard. I don’t know what causes it to get growing so fast I had no idea why
Heed this
Divine Warning:
"THE FINAL JUDGEMENT" phase
Please do not ignore, there are no in betweens, you must choose… Righteousness or evil?!
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0:22
badum shhh
I just like to imagine 1:41 bamboo is sitting on a chair made from the enemy tree
Bamboo isn’t invasive. Y’all just too soft.
Tell that to the island species.
I guess Bamboo Bamboozald you
What about Bamboo Torture?
Worlds oldest people: finally a worthy aponant our battle will be legendary
So why are the REAL bamboo videos of 4 years growth so pathertic looking? Lest than an arms legth. We are being scammed.
Oh no! We got *bamboozled*
Is grass’s cell is a ballon?
did he just recommend WoF?
(winter is mah fav btw)
I want some seeds
Spam bamboo shoot foods
Minceraft
Me who built a zero tick bamboo farm in minecraft: I am some what of a genius myself
1:07
Don’t temp me like this
Bamboos can be grown to be harvested, grinded, burned in thermal power plants. Solid biofuel.
So if we had bamboo plants all over the planet, the game would lag so hard we get redirected to the title screen.
My gf has bamboo growing behind her grandparents house even though we live in the USA its because her great Grandpa planted it.
So pandas are black and white and eat grass. Like cows