But that doesn't mean it will work on a local scale. To find out, the team tested leaves from 25 plant species on the UA campus. While initial results appear to show that the model will work, the team ...

When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist, forests represent a much more complex world consisting of different species. This diversity of ...

Guest presenter David Fripp is a keen collector of plants. He loves their variety and hates the idea of being limited to just one thing, so he has multiple collections. How plants use foliage to ...

Oil bodies are intracellular structures present in the seed and leaf cells of many land plants. Seed oil bodies are known to function as storage compartments for lipids. However, the physiological ...

Frequently, the leaves and stems of a plant will prove to be just as fascinating as its flowers. This is a plant like that, and it is a native, aquatic species. Except for its leaves, the entire plant ...

A new study shows that lipid droplets in the leaves contain plant proteins such as different myosin binding proteins involved in intracellular movement, and several enzymes responsible for ...