Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are food factories for the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

Catharanthus roseus is the sole commercial source of the monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs), vindoline and catharanthine, components of the commercially important anticancer dimers, vinblastine and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Leaves are the primary plant organs responsible for photosynthesis. Their size, shape and angles — all affected by cell patterning and growth — can also expose more of their ...

Little is known about the function of host factors involved in disease susceptibility. The barley [Hordeum vulgare) ROP (RHO of plants) G-protein RACB is required for full susceptibility of the leaf ...

In multicellular tissues, polarization or shape formation is coordinated among all cells within the population of a particular cell type so that they take the same polar or shape feature. For instance ...