Shoot apical meristems produce stem tissues, produce leaves, and produce flowers. Cell proliferation characteristics of meristems are dependent upon cell maturation processes and the functions of ...

An inter-university research group has succeeded in constructing the gene expression network behind the vascular development process in plants. They achieved this by performing bioinformatics analysis ...

Hugh Morris, Lenka Plavcová, Patrick Cvecko, Esther Fichtler, Mark A. F. Gillingham, Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera, Daniel J. McGlinn, Elisabeth Wheeler, Jingming Zheng, Kasia Ziemińska and Steven Jansen ...

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

Průhonice, Czech Republic - The green world that we live in would not have been possible without hidden changes to the plant body over the last 400 million years. To grow beyond just centimetres tall ...

For the first time, researchers have characterized the genome arrangement of tree ferns, which sheds new insight into how ferns evolved. Land plants evolved 470 million years ago from algae and have ...

New techniques allow live-observation of forming cell walls in the vascular tissue. Trees are by far the tallest organisms on Earth. Height growth is made possible by a specialized vascular system ...