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- 1From:The EconomistIt is not enough, in a multicellular creature, for labour to be divided between the cells. Those cells must also be organised ALL LIFE is made of cells. But to build a complex, multicelled organism from those cells...
- 2From:USA Today (Vol. 147, Issue 2880)IT MIGHT SEEM like a tomato plant and a subway system do not have much in common, but both, it turns out, are networks that strive to make similar tradeoffs between cost and performance. Using 3D laser scans of growing...
- 3From:SuperScience (Vol. 29, Issue 3)Earth is home to more than 300,000 species of plants. Most of them are angiosperms, or flowering plants. This chili pepper plant is an angiosperm. Here are the parts that help it grow and reproduce. Seeds Seeds...
- 4From:National Geographic Explorer: Pioneer (Vol. 16, Issue 6)Here's a look at some of the biggest, tallest, and widest trees: WIDEST El Arbol del Tule Cypress tree in the Mexican state of Oaxaca --Believed to have the widest tree trunk in the world. It's wider than a...
- 5From:Environmental Nutrition (Vol. 35, Issue 5)We lop off broccoli stems, snip away carrot tops and snap woody ends from asparagus without a thought. The mindless tossing of scraps, peels and other produce trimmings is the norm in today's kitchens. Flashback a...
- 6From:Horticulture, Gardening at its Best (Vol. 97, Issue 1)Cerinthe major THE WORDS "aristocratic," "subtle," and "refined" are often applied to Cerinthe major, indicating, as they generally do, a plant to be grown more for the pleasures of close study than for masses of...
- 7From:Science News (Vol. 173, Issue 12)One gone may mark the difference in shape between round supermarket tomatoes and some of the $5-a-pound heirlooms that grace farmers markets each August. A team of botanists has pinpointed the mutation that endows...
- 8From:EcosTechnology for measuring and simulating the structural growth of plants, and the effects of environmental factors and other organisms on them, is allowing scientists to conduct virtual experiments that reduce the need...
- 9From:Science News (Vol. 133, Issue 5)Leaf shelters are mite-y amenities It's a mite-eat-mite world out there on the leaf surfaces of trees and shrubs, and survival may go to the bug that takes better advantage of the ins and outs of its terrain. Such are...
- 10From:Pakistan Journal of Science (Vol. 64, Issue 1)S. Rashid -- . Rashid, S. Ilyas, S. Naz, F. Aslam and A. Ali _: ABSTRACT: Apical meristem as explant was used to micropropagate the economically important cut flower plant, Gypsophila paniculata L. by using in vitro...
- 11From:Natural History (Vol. 109, Issue 5)How do plants decide when it's time to make flowers? Finally scientist have some answers. Cancer, heart disease, smoky bars, and hotel rooms stale with the stench of old ashtrays--there's nothing very good to be said...
- 12From:Science News (Vol. 138, Issue 7)The source of floral chaos Virtually all flowering plants display their blossoms in highly symmetric arrangements, spacing them evenly from top to bottom and left to right along each branch. Moreover, all flowers on a...
- 13From:Science News (Vol. 138, Issue 6)Leaf lenses: A finer focus Cellular "lenses" on the leaves of some plants allow them to regulate the amount of sunlight reaching their photosynthesis centers, according to two studies described last week. Raymon A....
- 14From:Science News (Vol. 161, Issue 11)What good is fringe to a flower? People have traditionally considered fringe as merely part of the display for pollinators, says Joseph E. Armstrong of Illinois State University in Normal. It does enhance that the...
- 15From:Science News (Vol. 149, Issue 21)Cartographers have created topographical maps of much of the world, but they have overlooked at least one important area: the surfaces of leaves. Because a leaf's surface can make it more or less hospitable to microbes,...
- 16From:Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening (Vol. 71, Issue 7)Large, pointed leaves that are part of both flowering and non-flowering plants can add an aesthetic dimension to a landscaped garden. Examples of these plants include hardy crocosmias, gladioli, phormiums and cordylines....
- 17From:Science News (Vol. 141, Issue 3)Study of the desert shrub, Ephedra or Mormon tea, reveals evolution of the endosperm. More efficient reproduction caused by the changes may have allowed plants to evolve their life cycles and create flowers....
- 18From:Natural History (Vol. 111, Issue 3)Consider a field of daffodils: A carpet of gaudy yellow flowers dancing in the breeze, revealing in their movements the direction of each puff of wind. The contrast between the sunny petals and the vibrant green of the...
- 19From:Horticulture, Gardening at its Best (Vol. 97, Issue 1)The summer of 1999 proved a banner season for the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), the giant, foul-scented Sumatran aroid whose flowering has long been considered to be the "holy grail" of botany. The Atlanta...
- 20From:Natural History (Vol. 124, Issue 6)The species is often thought of as the fundamental component of biodiversity, yet according to botanist and evolutionary biologist David Tank of the University of Idaho, species is a "fuzzy" word. To clarify how...