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Study maps how plants set size across roots leaves and stems

Unraveling the mysteries of plant growth, a recent study titled “How plants decide their size: Study maps plant growth strategies across roots, leaves, and stems” has shed light on the key mechanisms ...
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Floral Induction of Vegetative Plants Supplied a Purified Fraction of Deoxyribonucleic Acid from Stems of Flowering Plants

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It has been found that floral induced stems of flowering tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Wis. 38) plants contain large amounts of rapidly ...
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Plant Stems And Leaves Are Always Proportional To Roots, Scientists Find

Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or ...
Nature

Plant and animal stem cells: similar yet different

Plant stem cells, as in animals, are maintained in specialized microenvironments, which are known as stem cell niches, where local signals from organizer cells act to prevent stem cell differentiation ...
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Plants feel pain too! Researchers find an ultrasonic 'scream' is emitted when stems are cut or if species are not watered enough

A team of scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that some plants emit a high frequency distress sound when they undergo environmental stress. The researchers tested tomato plants and ...
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Plant stems and leaves are always proportional to roots

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of ...