Indeterminate inflorescence is the term for a flower spike which blooms from the base up, meaning that as the stem grows, the potential for flowering is unlimited. This concept, and various concepts ...

Lee Seong-bok is one of Korea’s most popular and well-respected living poets. He is a practitioner of Seon Buddhism, a form of Mahayana Buddhism practised in Korea. Korean Buddhism is very ...

“Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You’ve got to feel as if the soles of your feet are touching the sky.” These 470 short meditations on the art of poetry writing are taken from ...

Jane introduces us to the different ways flowers can be arranged on plants, which is a useful tool for plant identification. People have had a fascination with flowers since history began. With around ...

Summary A central goal of evo-devo is to understand how morphological diversity arises from existing developmental mechanisms, requiring a clear, predictive explanatory framework of the underlying ...

After a spell of fine summer weather, the rains came again. A stroll on the dike trail yielded floral signs that it was now late summer. Fireweed stood tall. Many of the flowering stalk held ...

Plants produce repeated structures, such as leaves, flowers, and fruits, which differ in size and shape. One example of this is fruit size, which is commonly observed to decrease from proximal to ...

Modifying inflorescences with higher grain capacity is vital for crop grain production. One recurring target is to select inflorescences with more branches or floral structures. Prominent examples ...

Plant growth originates from a small number of undifferentiated cells called meristems. Primary meristems are established during embryogenesis and form primary tissues from which all plant organs ...