An introduction to the experimental approach to the development of the whole plant. The book deals with lower vascular plants (i.e. ferns) and seed plants, beginning with the embryo and continuing ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The purpose of this textbook is to present classical plant development in modern, ...

The seeds of maritime pines remember the temperatures they experienced during early development. This memory persists in ...

Researchers discovered that maritime pine seeds retain an epigenetic memory of temperatures experienced during embryogenesis, ...

Using plant stem cells is one thing. Using human stem cells in medicine is quite another. Scientists have found ways to grow embryonic stem cells in the lab, and are trying to use them to cure ...

But there is now a rapidly developing field mimicking natural embryo development. This research, published in the journal Nature, is described by the Israeli team as the first "complete" embryo ...

These observations suggest that the genetic programs responsible for embryonic development were already present before the emergence of animal life, or that C. perkinsii evolved independently to ...