Sessile plants cannot move, so they can only alter their growth pattern through differential growth to adapt to the changing environment. In dicotyledonous plants, the first process of differential ...

Arabidopsis thaliana shoot apical meristem with multiple flowers radiating out from centre at different stages of development (left) and the shoot apex under a scanning electron microscope where the ...

Some plants live fast and die after only a few weeks, while several species of trees (such as the bristlecone pine) can survive for thousands of years. One of the problems faced by these long-lifespan ...