{"id":521451,"date":"2018-09-14T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=783026293ed01781ee60ec0cc72a23f2"},"modified":"2018-09-14T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:50:01","slug":"groundwork-for-playing-with-the-architecture-of-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=521451","title":{"rendered":"Groundwork for playing with the architecture of plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing tomatoes at the same height so that they can be easily picked by a harvesting robot. Growing deeper roots where the soil is dry. These types of changes to plant architecture may well be enabled in the future thanks to scientists from Wageningen University &#038; Research who have shown how to stimulate stem cells in a specific spot. &#8220;We have proven a simple model for organising stem cells at a precise location in the plant,&#8221; says Ben Scheres, professor in Development Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing tomatoes at the same height so that they can be easily picked by a harvesting robot. Growing deeper roots where the soil is dry. These types of changes to plant architecture may well be enabled in the future thanks to scientists from Wageningen University &amp; Research who have shown how to stimulate stem cells in a specific spot. &#8220;We have proven a simple model for organising stem cells at a precise location in the plant,&#8221; says Ben Scheres, professor in Development Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521452,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521451\/revisions\/521452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}