A professor of plant molecular biology wants people to know that plants have stem cells too. Just like in the medical world, plant stem cells could support human growth and development when used to ...

Using the example of plant roots, the researchers have now been able to decipher which regulatory mechanisms ensure that growth in the meristem occurs in a controlled manner. The results have been ...

An inter-university research group has succeeded in constructing the gene expression network behind the vascular development process in plants. They achieved this by performing bioinformatics analysis ...

Here we provide the ‘Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset’, containing species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits –plant height, stem specific density, ...

Functional experiments using inducible transgenic lines demonstrated a striking dosage effect. Mild upregulation of MdWUS-1 dramatically increased shoot regeneration efficiency—producing over 100 bud ...

Plants use backup systems to adapt to rising temperatures, helping them maintain growth when key heat-response functions fail.

KNOX (KNOTTED1-LIKE HOMEOBOX) genes encode a family of homeodomain transcription factors that play a pivotal role in the regulation of meristem maintenance, organ initiation and tissue patterning ...