Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Defining the characteristics of individual leaves is part of tree morphology, ...

Scientists have determined how key developmental genes influence growth of cells to produce such differences in leaf form. The researchers were able to make thale cress, which typically produces ...

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 ...

Leaves display a remarkable range of forms from flat sheets with simple outlines to the cup-shaped traps found in carnivorous plants. Leaves display a remarkable range of forms from flat sheets with ...

The secret recipe nature uses to make the diverse leaf shapes we see everywhere around us has been revealed in research. The discovery comes in a study of the carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba ...

Mutually repressive interactions between KNOX proteins and AS1 and AS2 proteins contribute to the delimitation of leaf founder cells in the shoot apex of Arabidopsis. ARP MYB-like proteins are ...

• Background and Aims Diverse leaf forms in nature can be categorized into two groups: simple and compound. A simple leaf has a single blade unit, whilst a compound leaf is dissected into leaflets.

Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, commonly called guar, produces two leaf forms: a simple leaf and a trifoliate leaf. During ontogeny, the simple leaf is always produced prior to the appearance of any ...

If you have a yard full of fallen leaves every autumn, you’re not alone. Instead of bagging them up for trash day, you can put those leaves to work in your garden. Fallen leaves are more than just a ...