On the left, a young Arabidopsis plant is shown, with one of the root tips indicated by the yellow line. The yellow box shows a virtual section through a three-dimensional reconstruction of the root ...

The key to three-dimensional plant architecture lies in precise control over the orientation of cell division. Plant cells divide periclinally to grow radially—leading to thickening—while anticlinal ...

Chui E. Wong, Ying-Tao Zhao, Xiu-Jie Wang, Larry Croft, Zhong-Hua Wang, Farzad Haerizadeh, John S. Mattick, Mohan B. Singh, Bernard J. Carroll, Prem L. Bhalla Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 62, ...

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 ...

• 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 ...