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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SOPHIE THOMSON: About a quarter of all flowering plants, some 65,000 species from around the globe, are ...

Wild herbaceous dicotyledonous plants (dicots) showing symptoms ascribable to phytoplasma disorders were found to be widely distributed in organic vineyards in central Tuscany (Italy) affected by bois ...

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 ...

Everything about a plant’s life is affected by its leaves. These powerhouses are the sugar factories of botany! Leaves have amazing mechanisms for sustaining the plant’s life, as well as their vital ...

A team relates the presence of beneficial organisms in plant roots to their response to iron deficiency. The calcareous soils that pervade the southern region of the country pose a challenge for ...