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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have successfully transferred a receptor that recognizes bacteria from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana - a dicot, to wheat -- a monocot. They showed that the receptor can trigger a ...

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 ...

Now that spring has sprung, television, newspaper and magazine ads are sprouting with all sorts of plugs for weed killers. If you have never curled up on the couch with a dry book on botany, you might ...