Seeds of all lines were imbibed with water and exposed to a brief cold treatment (9 days) at 4°C in the dark to facilitate germination. They were then planted in 4 by 4 by 4.5 cm pots with standard ...

Tolerance to apical meristem damage (AMD) is a form of plant defense against herbivory. Theoretical models come to different conclusions about the effects of inorganic soil nutrient levels on ...

Arabidopsis thaliana shoot apical meristem with multiple flowers radiating out from centre at different stages of development (left) and the shoot apex under a scanning electron microscope where the ...

IN Dryopteris aristata an attempt has been made to observe the effect of isolating the apical meristem from the adjacent lateral tissues, while maintaining continuity with the pith parenchyma below.

• In rice, the florigens Heading Date 3a (Hd3a) and Rice Flowering Locus T 1 (RFT1), OsFD-like basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors, and Gf14 proteins assemble into florigen ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...