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- 1From:USA Today (Vol. 122, Issue 2589)Biochemists are researching the role of the plant hormones auxin and cytokinin in controlling plant growth and development. Transgenic techniques provide a means to regulate hormone production to produce improved plants....
- 2From:Natural History (Vol. 125, Issue 1)The periodic leaf patterns of plants can give rise to beautiful spirals and whorled patterns. Since the 1930s, it has been recognized that the plant hormone auxin stimulates leaf tissue formation, but how auxin is...
- 3From:Biology TodayOctober 11 -- 1. Refer to the given flow chart and select the correct option regarding V, W, X, Y and Z. Seed bearing plants Seed enclosed in ovary V W No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Seeds have two cotyledons Leguminous plants X...
- 4From:SuperScience (Vol. 29, Issue 3)Every plant goes through stages in its development. At each stage, the plant has different needs. Some plants take years to complete their life cycles. Some take only days. But all flowering plants go through the same...
- 5From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 79, Issue 40)SLEEP is an essential restorative practice for many organisms. Plants have developed a time-keeping mechanism called a circadian clock, which allows them to anticipate daily changes in light and temperature....
- 6From:Mother Earth News (Issue 293)Have you ever wondered why most plants have a dominant shoot that rises higher above the others? It's all about raging hormones. You can use this to your advantage if you want to modify the shape of a plant through...
- 7From:Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening (Vol. 74, Issue 10)Close-ups of several trees' bark in winter show their wide range of color, consistency and form. Examples include the winter bark of paperbark maple, canoe birch, dawn redwood, Chinese lacebark pine, Tatarian dogwood,...
- 8From:Western Farm Press (Vol. 21, Issue 25)ZINC is an essential element which is required in small amounts by plants. There is evidence that fruit trees use less than two ounces of zinc per acre. However, when this supply is reduced below adequate levels, the...
- 9From:USA Today (Vol. 131, Issue 2697)The mechanism by which a key hormone called auxin regulates the growth and development of plants by promoting the degradation of repressor proteins has been discovered by researchers at The University of Texas at...
- 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:The Economist (Vol. 338, Issue 7948)A SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness it may be. But autumn is also the fall, and there is little fruitfulness to be had from leafless plants. This does not matter in nature. The winter die- back has a reason: the...
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- 14From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 79, Issue 16)An international team of researchers led by Purdue University horticulture and landscape architecture professor Angus Murphy have discovered that two types of plant proteins are at work in the transport of an important...
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- 16From:American Forests (Vol. 106, Issue 3)How a state official and university professor used CITYgreen to teach students about the value of trees and forests. When students at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City begin the fall semester, several thousand...
- 17From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 87, Issue 17)A TEAM of Michigan State University researchers has discovered a switch that regulates plant photosynthesis --the process that lets plants store solar energy and use it to grow and produce food. Photosynthesis stores...
- 18From:The EconomistStress and the city Plants are adversely affected by the racket of urban traffic M ANY ANIMALS depend upon sound to find food, detect predators and communicate with one another. These species understandably suffer...
- 19From:USA Today (Vol. 143, Issue 2841)The first three-dimensional images of a live embryo turning itself inside out have been captured by researchers from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). The images--of embryos of a green alga called...
- 20From:Town & Country (Vol. 156, Issue 5260)The gargantuan goobers (graded Virginia Super Fancy) from Virginia Diner trace their lineage back to 1929 and a humble Wakefield, Virginia, restaurant. The recipe hasn't changed one lick since those days, except that...