Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot, the ...

Walking in my neighborhood the other day, I stopped to stare at a flowering hedge that I had never noticed before. It was planted in front of a wall running east to west, so the southern sun was ...

A PAPER by C. P. Majumdar (Ann. Bot., 6, No. 21, January, 1942) on the organization of the shoot of Heracleum Sphondylium leads to an interesting comparison of the mode of growth of the dicotyledon ...

Scientist Matt Humphry of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and his team identified a set of genes regulated by a common protein that has been conserved in the genome of monocot and ...