Intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) reflects how efficiently plants assimilate carbon relative to water loss at the leaf ...

Pick up a leaf and it is hard not to notice the pattern made by the veins. For years, biologists, mathematicians and even poets and philosophers have tried to decipher the rules and regulations behind ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...

v. 1. Annonaceae.--v. 2. Lauraceae.--v. 3. Myrtaceae.--v. 4. Melastomataceae.--v. 5. Combretaceae.--v. 6. Flacourtiaceae.--v. 7. The classification of leaf venation ...

Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources. When you ...