The spiral pattern of an Aloe polyphylla plant at the University of California Botanical Garden. Stan Shebs via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 3.0 To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather ...

Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn colors, or taste, and the arrangement of leaves on a plant is a practical way to identify a species. However, the details of how plants control their leaf ...

Researchers in New Zealand say they've identified extensive changes in the growth patterns and timing of the planet's tree leaf activity in the last few decades. Their findings, a first global ...

A) Distribution of the median of the Φ1−4 values for each plant. The broad sense heritability of this trait was estimated to be 0.25. B) Results of a resampling FarmCPU GWAS conducted for median of ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 168, No. 5 (June 2007), pp. 555-562 (8 pages) The objective of this study was to investigate patterns of surface features of leaves related to ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...