"make use of" imputes agency on the trees. A better way to phrase it would be
how/whether trees benefit from wind. But, if I'm a little more generous, maybe you're
asking if there are any transduction or energy storage mechanisms triggered by the wind.
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.93.10.1466
"Touch, wind, and wounding all induced increased lipoxygenase (LOX) mRNA
transcription in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings (Mauch et al., 1997). The
mechanical stress induced response occurred within 1 h after treatment, and the amount of
transcript was reported to be strongly dose-dependent. LOXs are involved or implicated in
a number of metabolic pathways associated with plant growth and development, ABA
biosynthesis, senescence, mobilization of lipid reserves, wound responses, resistance to
pathogens, formation of fatty acid hydroperoxides, and synthesis of jasmonic acid and
traumatic acid (for review, see Mauch et al., 1997)."
Maybe?
On 6/27/23 09:19, Barry MacKichan wrote:
I would think the energy is too dispersed to be collectable. At risk of bending
this infant thread … you reminded me of John Muir:
It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their
imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a
discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though
fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all
directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us
around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast
and far!
—Barry
On 27 Jun 2023, at 11:38, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Sitting here at the farm, watching the Normandy poplars bend in the
Southeast wind, I am led to wonder why trees don’t make use of wind energy.
There must be a tangible amount of heat generated by the bending of branches.
Is there no way to use that heat for, for instance, convection of fluids within
the tree?
Or do they? And I am just too ill educated to know it.
Nick
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