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 ...

this is silent footage from "Seeds: How They Germinate," produced by Coronet Films in 1971, is an 11-minute educational piece that explores the classification, structure, and protection of seeds, as ...

Phytochrome is rapidly degraded in vivo after photoconversion from the stable red-absorbing (Pr) form to the far red-absorbing (Pfr) form. Previously, we have shown in etiolated oat seedlings that ...

STARTING YOUR OWN seeds at home is not only a rewarding science project, but also a sure-fire way to save money! So how does one go about sowing seeds and just what is germination? Germination: A ...

Plants come in all shapes and sizes, allowing them to fit into unique niches in the landscape, but they can be quite complex organisms. In order to select the most appropriate plants for a given ...

At least two components that modulate plant resistance against the fungal powdery mildew disease are ancient and have been conserved since the time of the monocot-dicot split (≈200 Mya). These ...