When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own. In this ...

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Biologists have identified all the genes expressed in the stem cells of Arabidopsis, a mustard-like plant that is a model for studying plant biology. The achievement paves the way to developing better ...

In living organisms, development is a combination of multiple coordinated processes that interact in time and space over the course of growth. One false note in the delicate symphony can have ...

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...

Plant Physiology, Vol. 42, No. 6 (Jun., 1967), pp. 875-877+879-880 (5 pages) Epinastic curvatures of branches of Coleus blumei Benth. and the growth pattern of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings ...

1. The problem of the relationship between the size of the plant body and the size of the organs it produces has been studied by various workers, who find that in most cases there is a small but ...

There’s always something new to discover in the world, even in things you have seen a million times. For us, it might be an interesting tidbit in the background of a fave film or a sound in a popular ...