Phenotypic plasticity can include gradual change in a trait or dramatic and discrete change from time to time. As an example of dramatic change, plants often flower according to a mechanism of ...

Plants that are close together do everything they can to intercept light. This "shade avoidance" response has been ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Here are eight examples of mutualistic relationships ... In Madagascar, some geckos have been observed lapping up the honeydew produced by plant hoppers. This may be mutualism, with the gecko's ...

1999) dicot - One of the two main divisions (the other being monocots) of flowering plants (i.e. angiosperms) which have two cotyledons or "seed leaves". Examples include fruiting trees and most ...

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Julich have now used cryo-electron microscopy to uncover intriguing new information. Known from the photosynthetic system of plants, algae, and bacteria, the membrane ...

The membrane that surrounds cells in living organisms is extremely flexible and sensitive. How it protects itself from damage ...

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows that of all plants ...

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In both diets, you eat mostly plant foods (fruits, vegetables ... follow either diet have a reduced risk of dementia compared with those who don’t. For example, people eating the Mediterranean way had ...