As humans, we are mostly concerned with the shoot part of this equation, as that is the part of the plant we can see. However, as has been mentioned in numerous articles by many extension agents ...

How A Plant Know To Send Roots Down And Shoots Up: EAR Calls The Shots Date: February 13, 2008 Source: Salk Institute Summary: Controlled by a tightly regulated choreography that determines what ...

Woody plants . Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) — Part of the holly family, this partially evergreen shrub has dark gray bark graced with red berries covering its branches in winter, hence the ...

University of Utah biologists discovered a gene that allows a plant's roots to tell the leaves to stop growing, presumably when water is scarce, soil is too compacted or other conditions are bad.

Soil sample: Researchers studying the uptake of plastic nanoparticles in lettuce found more nanoplastics in the plant's root than in its shoot. (Courtesy: iStock/SurkovDimitri) A new study aimed at ...

The middle part of the capsule constricted, as if it were squeezed by fingers, until the seed, about the size of a pumpkin seed, broke free and flew out at about 28 miles per hour.

Science has known about plant hormones since Charles Darwin experimented with plant shoots and showed that the shoots bend toward the light as long as their tips, which are secreting a growth ...

Nature Plants - In addition to the previously reported root-to-shoot nitrogen-deficiency small peptides, two more polypeptides are identified as phloem-mobile descending shoot-to-root signals and ...