Emperor Rubisco
Willing to drive Calvins
Sends tannins to war
Morning sunlight shines
Carbon uptake starts to climb
Photosynthesis
Warm rain to Earth
Turn back with evaporation
Ah, holy water cycle!
Decomposition
Controls growth rate of a plant
Through a feedback loop
Complete the cycle-
break down biotic compounds-
decomposition
Nitrogen fixers
Advantage to those who can
Legumes sure are great
An old growth forest
Tree canopies filter
Sun's irradiance
Rachis, where did you go?
It appears you are hollow and bare.
Alas, a water column there!
Root shoot ratio
That allocation is so
Key to survival
Plants are hungry things
Greedy roots eat through the Earth
Leaves drain atmosphere
Photosynthesis
Carbon assimilation
Roots and shoots are built
Photosynthesis:
CO2, Light, Chlorophyll
H2O, glucose
Sun gives too much heat
Plants must protect their water
ABA's the key
Water in a plant
A continuum soil to air
Yes, transpiration
Plasmodesmata
H2O symplastic moves
Potential controls
Decomposition
Provides nutrients for growth
Soil microbes and plants
Nutrient limit
I need more irradiance
To increase my shoots
High irradiance
Leaves acclimate at night.
Photosynthesis.
Drink-ing more Red bull,
Pre-dawn wat-er pot-ent-ials,
Guinn-ess and Wan-da
Percolation moves
The water to thirsty roots
With leached nutrients
Need water, more roots
Need more nitrogen, more roots
Need light, forget roots
Decomposition
Controls growth rate of a plant
Through a feedback loop
Xylem and phloem
You move nutrients swiftly
Thanks for all your work
Stomata are cool
Water stays where it belongs
hydrated all day
Auxin descends from the bud
Locked forever in a battle with cytokinin
Until no more buds remain
Soil to plant to air
Matrix, solute and pressure
Water potential
Warm rain to earth,
Turn back with evoporation
Ah, holy water cycle!
Sunlight sparkling down
Green life roots down stems stretch up
Photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide
Ever eager H2O
Glucose creation
Night falls green leaves sigh
Organisms oxidize
Happy energy
Morning sunlight shines
Carbon uptake starts to climb
Photosynthesis
I
Look at the white light
for some, direct is better
for others, just shade
II
when gold reach each day,
green laborers are ready
to break fresh water
III
Then breathing and food,
are photo-products of plants,
and shared by all.
IV
Look at the summer
it can burn green on desert
plants close their windows
V
All plants need you, light
like water, heat and nutrients
but only you can shine.