We have looked at seeds and roots of plants, and now we are going to study the stems. Plant stems are defined as the axis, or the ...

Phloem, the other vascular system ... As well, the green in the stems is a site of active photosynthesis. The tissue of plants can also differ by the type of plant. Annuals have just one season ...

Stringy avocado is another obstacle standing in your way on the road to the ultimate guacamole. If you’ve ever opened up an avocado only to find it full of weird stringy fibers, you probably wonder if ...

Crown gall lies in wait until emerging in damaged vines, but new research aims to give growers a better chance of detection ...

Thick multicellular plant samples provide unique challenges when it comes to cryo-preservation, which has resulted in limited successful examples for structural studies using in situ cryo-electron ...

Auxin is the first plant hormone—or "phytohormone"—ever identified, with its discovery dating to the late 19th and early 20th ...

Photo: Don Norman ATP Nutrition, which made headlines last year with their Nutriscan portable soil lab, has upgraded the system to scan nutrients in the leaf tissue of plants. The company spotlighted ...