‘As an evolutionary geneticist, I encourage developmental botanists to look into the genetic basis of the cushion form in stemless daisies’ Composites, or plants in the family Compositae, usually look ...

For the majority of plant species in the world, we know little about their functional ecology, and not even one of the most basic traits—the species’ growth habit. To fill the gap in availability of ...

IT may seem sufficiently obvious that living tissue is to a large extent subject to physical and chemical laws ; if a man falls off a cliffhe is as much subject to gravity as a stone is, and the ...

D'ARCY THOMPSON in his “Growth and Form”, Chapter xi., deals lucidly with the properties of logarithmic spirals, and the reasons for their frequent occurrence in organisms. He points out that for them ...