In stoloniferous species, the length of petioles is of pivotal importance because it determines the position of leaf blades within the canopy. From a mechanistic perspective, two developmental ...

The mystery of grass leaf formation has now been unraveled using the latest computational modelling and developmental genetic techniques. Grass is cut regularly by our mowers and grazed on by cows and ...

This article presents a preliminary systematic survey of 115 species from 56 genera (approximately 51% of the genera) of Araceae in which the pattern of petiolar collenchyma (or its absence) is ...

Fossils and their surrounding matrix can provide insights into what our world looked like millions of years ago. Fossils of angiosperms, or flowering plants (which are the most common plants today), ...

THE scope of this book is somewhat ambitious, for although it is limited to the requirements of intermediate examinations, it takes up in considerable detail the four main branches of botany.