With our sustained high summer temperatures plants need a continuous source of water. Water moves from the soil into and throughout a plant delivering water and nutrients via a pipe-like vascular ...

Plant Physiology, Vol. 138, No. 2, Arabidopsis Special Issue (Jun., 2005), pp. 803-818 (16 pages) The growth of secondary xylem and phloem depends on the division of cells in the vascular cambium and ...

Shoot apical meristems produce stem tissues, produce leaves, and produce flowers. Cell proliferation characteristics of meristems are dependent upon cell maturation processes and the functions of ...

In a new twist on zombie botany, Harvard University physiologists have found that the pipes in a plant’s water plumbing can regulate the flow speed, despite the disability of being dead. The stack of ...

Owing to recent advances, plant vascular developmental can now be described from early specification during embryogenesis up to late differentiation events. Plant vascular tissues display both ...

Researchers from MIT have created a water filter fashioned from a small piece of sapwood, an inexpensive and disposable technology that could help millions of people in the developing world who don't ...

An inter-university research group has succeeded in constructing the gene expression network behind the vascular development process in plants. They achieved this by performing bioinformatics analysis ...

After some big winds, there were lots of downed trees over the trails. Trail crews soon cleared the ways, leaving the cut ends of tree trunks where we could count the growth rings, if we chose to do ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

An enzyme appears to enable Xyllela fastidiosa bacteria to infect grapevines with Pierce's disease, causing serious leaf damage as pictured here. UC Davis plant scientists have identified an enzyme ...

Removing all the dangerous bacteria from drinking water would have enormous health benefits for people around the world. The technologies exist for doing that, but there's a problem: cost. Now a ...