Here we are, the last week of August. The summer season is coming to an end, the kids are going back to school, our veggie beds and flower containers are winding down —although my overwintered ...

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

Dormancy and tropism are two abilities plants have that help them survive. Plants can move toward or away from a stimulus (tropism), or halt their growth completely (dormancy) when conditions are not ...

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 100, No. 1, ADVANCES IN PLANT TROPISMS (January 2013), pp. 215-225 (11 pages) Premise of the study: To reach favorable conditions for photosynthesis, seedlings grow ...

To establish productive infection, plant viruses need to be able to efficiently invade and spread within a plant. Most viruses are introduced into a plant via the epidermal or mesophyll cells where ...

Plants are fixed at a place with their roots in the ground, so they cannot move from one place to another. That is plant do not show movement of the entire body. However, movement of the individual ...

Figure 1: Phloem and xylem transport in plants. Plants possess different transport systems that can be classified according to the distance and the direction of transport. To assure that the ...