‘As an evolutionary geneticist, I encourage developmental botanists to look into the genetic basis of the cushion form in stemless daisies’ Composites, or plants in the family Compositae, usually look ...

For the majority of plant species in the world, we know little about their functional ecology, and not even one of the most basic traits—the species’ growth habit. To fill the gap in availability of ...

This project begins with a massive tree wart, a bulbous growth formed by natural stress, injury, or environmental pressures. On the surface, it appears rough and distorted, but once mounted on the ...

IT may seem sufficiently obvious that living tissue is to a large extent subject to physical and chemical laws ; if a man falls off a cliffhe is as much subject to gravity as a stone is, and the ...

Some Acacia hybrid (A. mangium × A. auriculiformis) plantations in are prone to heavy branching and poor stem form. The age of the stock plants used to produce cuttings for clonal propagation and/or ...

D'ARCY THOMPSON in his “Growth and Form”, Chapter xi., deals lucidly with the properties of logarithmic spirals, and the reasons for their frequent occurrence in organisms. He points out that for them ...