A normal tomato leaf is shown top left, while on the right is a cup-shaped leaf from a plant with PHAN switched off or turned down. (Neelima Sinha/UC Davis photos) A single gene, called PHANTASTICA ...

Call them plant motors. Or plant muscles. Tiny bulges of specialized cells in a mimosa plant can fold its feathery leaflets together in seconds, then relax — and do it again. A new look at these ...

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A single gene, called PHANTASTICA (PHAN), controls whether a plant makes feathery leaves like a tomato or umbrella-like leaves like Oxalis. The same mechanism is shared by a wide group of flowering ...