The spiral pattern of an Aloe polyphylla plant at the University of California Botanical Garden. Stan Shebs via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 3.0 To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather ...
Scientists have uncovered how the interplay between cell shape and mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata ...
A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...
Mutually repressive interactions between KNOX proteins and AS1 and AS2 proteins contribute to the delimitation of leaf founder cells in the shoot apex of Arabidopsis. ARP MYB-like proteins are ...
Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn colors, or taste, and the arrangement of leaves on a plant is a practical way to identify a species. However, the details of how plants control their leaf ...