How the beech forest turns green in the spring
Name of applicant
Peter Brodersen
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 332,000
Year
2023
Type of grant
Research Infrastructure
Summary
We study the familiar greening of the beech forest in the early spring. The trees can teach us how living organisms store potently active material in an inactive form, only to be activated when conditions are right. We will study how inactive aggregates of a key growth stimulator are dissolved and activated by biochemical wizardry when temperatures increase sufficiently in the spring.