Talk:Thermotropism

Expanding this stub as part of a Wiki Ed assignment
Hi. I'm a first time student editor with an assignment to expand a plant physiology article by about four paragraphs. I have written several paragraphs of info for the Thermotropism article, with what I think are appropriate sources and a photo, in my sandbox. I plan to put my changes online after an in-class peer review session on May 24. I'm not sure whether or not someone will look at this talk page, but if anyone sees this message and wants to review my changes, I'm sure there's a way to do that. Thanks and have a good day--Aneice92 (talk) 06:48, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright, this article is now officially expanded. I hope it continues to be enriched with more info in the future. I've taken the liberty of upgrading article status from stub to start class, which I'm pretty sure is appropriate.--Aneice92 (talk) 23:41, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Thermotropism or thermonasty?
Thermotropism, when it is strictly defined, is a movement in response to a temperature gradient. This is an inevitable definition because tropic responses are directional with respect to the stimulus, hence there must be a direction in the stimulus for a response to be tropic. For example, roots may move in the direction of cooler temperatures. Notwhithstanding that definition, plenty of sources refer to, for example, the Rhodendron leaf shape changes as thermotropic. Given that there is now an article thermonasty describing essentially the same Rhodedendron leaf changes, it might be time to sort this out. Lithopsian (talk) 16:29, 6 June 2020 (UTC)