Monocotyledons (monocots) are one of the major clades of angiosperms. Although Theophrastus 1 already mentioned some of their characteristics (single cotyledon, fasciculate root system), they have ...

Grafting is an essential technique in many parts of the agricultural industry; by physically binding certain plants together, you get dramatic improvements, including the speed to fruiting, hardiness ...

Walking in my neighborhood the other day, I stopped to stare at a flowering hedge that I had never noticed before. It was planted in front of a wall running east to west, so the southern sun was ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SOPHIE THOMSON: About a quarter of all flowering plants, some 65,000 species from around the globe, are ...

A new technique for grafting plants could increase production and eliminate diseases for some of the world’s most imperilled crops, such as bananas and date palms. Plant grafting, where the root of ...

Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot, the ...