This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Phloem versus xylem water and carbon flow between a developing daughter cladode (flattened stem segment) and the underlying basal cladode of ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 40, No. 219 (October 1989), pp. 1069-1078 (10 pages) The minute changes in volume of a grape berry which occur from hour to hour were measured non-destructively in ...

You probably don’t think you need a botany lesson when all you want to know is how to keep your Christmas tree fresh this season. But explaining a few things might make the whole process make sense.

Engineers at MIT have successfully developed a microfluid device incorporating the pumping mechanism existing in plants with the intent to apply the device for moving small robots. The "tree-on-a-chip ...

Plants come in all shapes and sizes, allowing them to fit into unique niches in the landscape, but they can be quite complex organisms. In order to select the most appropriate plants for a given ...