Subalpine and boreal moorlands are ecosystems that contribute to climate stability by reducing excess carbon as well as ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

The macromolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes within the thylakoids of higher plant chloroplasts has been a topic of significant debate. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, this ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology have discovered ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, the University of Cologne, and the University of Copenhagen have uncovered a hidden talent of the Casparian strip—a root structure ...

Plant leaves are adapted for gas exchange and ... exceptions So that water and gases have a limited distance to diffuse. Vascular tissue in the midrib and veins Branches of the xylem, to transport ...

The vascular network consisting of phloem and xylem (wood) provides plants with structural support and long-distance transport that specifies further downstream processes in the sink tissues (such as ...