ELi5: Can plants be “overweight” if they produce too much food in the similar fashion to how animals gain weight if they eat too much food?

Question

When animals eat too much food, they gain weight. What happens to a plant that produces too much food via photosynthesis? Can plants be overweight?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Not the same I guess but there’s a herbicide that kills the plants by causing it to grow so quickly it will kill itself because it can not possibly get enough water to keep up with the demand that the growing puts on it so they will dehydrate.