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 ...

A PAPER by C. P. Majumdar (Ann. Bot., 6, No. 21, January, 1942) on the organization of the shoot of Heracleum Sphondylium leads to an interesting comparison of the mode of growth of the dicotyledon ...

Scientist Matt Humphry of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and his team identified a set of genes regulated by a common protein that has been conserved in the genome of monocot and ...

To some extent classification is subjective. Taxonomists differ in the relative importance they ascribe to particular characters and in the degree of difference between related taxa they deem ...

EIGHT years have elapsed since the publication of the first volume of “The Families of Flowering Plants”, which dealt with the Di cotyledons. The author, in his preface to this his second volume, ...