Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot, the ...

Phytohormone auxin plays a critical role in modulating plant architecture by creating a gradient regulated via its transporters such as ATP-binding cassette (ABC) B1. Except for Arabidopsis and maize, ...

Among all major enzymes involved in starch biosynthesis in plants, ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) is the first key regulatory and rate limiting enzyme (Smidansky et al., 2002; Tuncel and Okita ...

Plants are divided into two categories: Monocots and Dicots. Monocot leaves are elongated and slender with parallel veins. Dicot plant leaves have distributed veins in net-like or reticulated patterns ...