Průhonice, Czech Republic - The green world that we live in would not have been possible without hidden changes to the plant body over the last 400 million years. To grow beyond just centimetres tall ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 13, No. 10 (Dec., 1926), pp. 743-753 (11 pages) 1. Use was made of the method of determining isoelectric points for plant tissue which consists in placing pieces of ...

Rothamsted scientists, together with partners at the University of Olomouc, Czechia, have uncovered how a family of genes in wheat fine-tunes the plant's growth and grain development, a breakthrough ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 79, No. 10 (Oct., 1992), pp. 1119-1125 (7 pages) Tissue cultures of the halophytic saltmarsh grass Sporobolus virginicus were initiated from unemerged immature ...

Drought can take a serious toll on plants and animals alike. When cells are deprived of water, they shrink, collapsing in upon themselves and, without water as a medium, chemicals and enzymes inside ...

The endosperm, the tissue surrounding the plant embryo in the seed, has long been perceived as a nourishing tissue that is abandoned once the transition to the seedling is complete. A team has now ...

At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their DNA tucked away in an envelope, and are kinda juicy inside. But plant cells have evolved some ...

Duke’s decision to close its herbarium threatens to uproot a legacy of scientific discovery, climate research and education that has shaped the field of botany for generations.

Scientists have published new evidence that plant tissues can have a preferred direction of growth and that this characteristic is essential for producing complex plant shapes. Scientists at the John ...

Govt. Victoria College’s Botany Department is conducting an exhibition as part of its platinum jubilee celebrations ...