Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are studying how these structures form to understand plant growth.

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

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In plants, as in animal cells, microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) must be involved in regulating the structure and behaviour of microtubule arrays.

In 1976, a US chemistry teacher unwrapped a Twinkie - a sponge cake snack - and put on top of the chalkboard in his classroom so his students could see how long it would take to decompose. Forty ...

Plant stem cell articles from across Nature Portfolio Plant stem cells are innately undifferentiated cells located in the meristems of plant. They serve as the origin of plant vitality, as they ...

Angela Campbell, an herbalist in south Minneapolis, teaches classes about local medicinal and edible plants at community centers and hosts “Local Plant ID Walks” around her neighborhood. Campbell said ...

Mariana Giraldi, Natalia Hanazaki, Use of Cultivated and Harvested Edible Plants by Caiçaras—What Can Ethnobotany Add to Food Security Discussions?, Human Ecology Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2014), pp. 51 ...

Knowing the difference between common edible plants and poisonous counterparts that look just like them can spare you some serious health problems.

While humans have been using plants as medicines and religious or spiritual symbols for tens of thousands of years, our first association with plants going all the way back to the dawn of our species ...

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