{"id":8871,"date":"2017-11-11T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2017-11-11T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:50:39","slug":"abscission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/abscission\/","title":{"rendered":"Abscission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8872\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171111-syamore-leaf-frost-bw.jpg\" alt=\"sycamore leaf frost\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171111-syamore-leaf-frost-bw.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171111-syamore-leaf-frost-bw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171111-syamore-leaf-frost-bw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171111-syamore-leaf-frost-bw-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plant will abscise a part either to discard a member that is no longer necessary, such as a leaf during autumn, or a flower following fertilisation, or for the purposes of reproduction. Most deciduous plants drop their leaves by abscission before winter, whereas evergreen plants continuously abscise their leaves. Another form of abscission is fruit drop, when a plant abscises fruit while still immature, in order to conserve resources needed to bring the remaining fruit to maturity. If a leaf is damaged, a plant may also abscise it to conserve water or photosynthetic efficiency, depending on the &#8216;costs&#8217; to the plant as a whole. The abscission layer is a greenish-grayish color.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abscission\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40,60,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionary","category-trees","category-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}