RE: Plant Evolution: Little Red Dots. What do they mean? [Science][Gardening]

Greetings @Verdadcreativa what an interesting article I have had the opportunity to read, I note that you are very curious with your crops and that is the key to success to get the best care and production if it came to the case, how great is nature, those extra-floral nectars like you indicas are a mechanism that the plant uses to generate an appropriate environment, stimulating the presence of functional organisms such as pollinators to ensure their offspring and natural enemies for pest insect control, This is all a wonder, so we need to know the ecosystem before we try to manipulate it our way.

On the other hand, regarding the leaves I consider that they do not present any deficiency according to what I observe in the photograph, I think it is the metabolism of the plant that exerts this type of changes, since you are comparing the green color of young leaf with a developed one. Although sometimes the dark green color is due to an excess of nitrogen, because it is an element that enhances the photosynthetic process and the growth of the plant, phosphorus deficiency can also generate dark green leaves but is easy to detect because they have some red spots, and also according to some physiological authors some substances that together with chlorophyll generate a dark green color to protect the leaves from the intensity of the sun’s rays.

Friend you have generated in your publication a series of edge that can become future articles for this great community, I congratulate you and we continue in communication, take into account to cite some authors that serve as reference.