MR. H. HAMSHAW THOMAS'S paper entitled “The Old Morphology and the New”, read before the Linnean Society on November 10, created considerable interest. In recent years, Mr. Thomas said, a great gulf ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 108, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 575-583 (9 pages) • Background and Aims Increasing physical water scarcity is a major constraint for irrigated rice (Oryza sativa) production.

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), in the last several years, has made a major impact on different fields of biology research that are either associated with the physiology and anatomy of plants, or ...

Programmed cell death (PCD) is an integral part of plant development and of responses to abiotic stress or pathogens. Although the morphology of plant PCD is, in some cases, well characterised and ...

The freezing characteristics and development of cell tension during extracellular freezing were examined in supercooling stem tissues of riverbank grapes (Vitis riparia) and cold-hardened leaves of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the ...

Nonvascular plants -- The appearance of land vascular plants -- Division Tracheophyta -- Subdivision Lycopsida -- Subdivision Sphenopsida -- Subdivision Pteropsida ...

Laboratory and field experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that modifications to the process of photosynthesis or to the physical characteristics of plants can make crops more resilient to hotter ...