(1)THE course of work in elementary botany set forth in this book is such as to fulfil admirably the author's main object: the establishment of the fundamental principles of plant physiology; while ...

PROF. FARMER'S work is that of an expert dealing with a science with the details of which he is thoroughly familiar, both as a student and as a teacher. Its pages show the firm grasp that enables him ...

Plants use numerous mechanisms for their pollination. Now botanists have discovered a particularly sophisticated system among pipevines that is based purely on deception. The flowers of the Greek ...

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MOUNT IDA, Ark. >> The teeming plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the U.S. shutter ...

BEIJING -- A new study has disclosed that, although both are red, red fruits exhibit lower color diversity than red flowers when viewed by birds, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...

Plant researchers have discovered an unusual and previously unknown reproductive strategy in plants: the Greek pipevine species 'Aristolochia microstoma' produces a unique mixture of volatiles that ...