Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy little alien mouths. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’re getting up close ...

What do plant tissues look like under a microscope and why are they so complex! Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy ...

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 ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 68, No. 2, Special Issue: C₄ Photosynthesis: 50 Years of Discovery and Innovation (2017), pp. 147-160 (14 pages) The high efficiency of C₄ photosynthesis relies on ...

Plant tissue culture involves cultivating plant cells, tissues, and organs in a nutrient-rich medium using controlled, aseptic techniques. 1 Since its inception in the early 20th century, plant tissue ...

Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...