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When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own. In this ...

A common lab plant that’s been poked and put under microscopes for decades may seem unlikely to keep secrets. But in widely studied Arabidopsis thaliana, scientists have identified the “cantil” — a ...

The machinery of life is dazzlingly complex. To try to make sense of it, researchers have spent decades focusing on so-called model organisms: creatures that are easy to study in the lab and share key ...

In living organisms, development is a combination of multiple coordinated processes that interact in time and space over the course of growth. One false note in the delicate symphony can have ...

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MAETERLINCK has entitled one of his charming essays ‘The Intelligence of the Flowers.’ It may seem like taking a long step beyond this to attribute mind to the whole plant kingdom. We human beings are ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

What are plants made of, and how did a little tomato go all the way to the Supreme Court? When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made ...