News tagged with leaf venation

New software quantifies leaf venation networks, enables plant biology advances

Plant biologists are facing pressure to quantify the response of plants to changing environments and to breed plants that can respond to such changes. One method of monitoring the response of plants to different ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?

To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they come to dominate plant life on earth? Today a study ...

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1




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Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate

(Phys.org) -- UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine the construction of leaf vein systems as leaves grow and evolve. These easy-to-apply mathematical rules can now be used to better ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

77,000-year-old evidence for early 'bedding', use of medicinal plants at South African rock shelter

What were the daily lives of modern humans like more than 50,000 years ago?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Being small has its advantages, if you are a leaf

(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of leaves can vary by a factor of 1,000 across plant species, but until now, the reason why has remained a mystery. A new study by an international team of scientists led by UCLA ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elastic stresses influence formation of leaf veins

Elastic stresses may play a crucial role in determining a leaf's venation pattern, according to a joint Argentinian-French study published April 11th in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology. The researchers have d ...

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created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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