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The study of the form and internal structures of plants.

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How to correctly preserve organic matter with ethylene and polyethylene glycol?

I am trying to preserve and dye flowers, especially roses. Let me walk you through the process I am trying to optimize: 1) Soaking flowers in 96%-ethanol for a day to dehydrate them. This step ...
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Genotype result of double fertilization

So, clearly, the endosperm would be a fusion of the polar nuclei and one male gamete. Does this mean that each male gamete would have a T allele on it? I can't seem to figure out a way to predict ...
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Why are the no bioluminescent plants?

There are bioluminescent creatures and some fungi too. As far as I can see there are no bioluminescent plants. Why is this? I imagine it would make a good attraction for night pollinators, or even ...
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plant crossing for creating breeding population

I read some material about plant breeding. For a self-incompatible plant with high heterozygosity, it said that after selecting the plant population based on phenotype/desired trait, a cross was done ...
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Negative Phototropism In Plants

Why does the root of a plant go away from the sun? The shoot goes towards the sun, why does the root go away from it?
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What attaches plant cells to the cell wall?

In animal cells integrins span the plasma membrane and attach the cell membrane to the extracellular matrix. I was wondering how are plant cells attached to the cell wall? Is it just the middle ...
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Location of male and female reproductive organs in fern (prothallus)

I can't seem to find an authoritative answer to this anywhere else online. Basically, my school text-book says the antheridium (male organ) is located on the lower surface of the fern prothallus and ...
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What predates on cactus in the Atacama desert?

Introduction Last week, I was in the Atacama desert where I've seen many cacti. Some / many of them were seemingly suffering from predation. Most of predation seemed to be on cardón, often restricted ...
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Is it normal for corn to have multiple ears in one place?

I have (out of a mistake) one corn plant in my greenhouse and it made 4 cobs in one place. Is that normal?! I never saw something like this before.
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Why will happen if plant phloem does not contain sieve plates?

What are the primary functions of the sieve plates that make them so crucial? I've done a bit of reading online and found "Sieve plates are perforated end walls separating the component cells (sieve ...
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Reasons for a flower type to consume water faster than another?

This is an easy experiment where you put a white flower into a recipient filled with water and liquid watercolor, so that the flower gets dyed. While doing this experiment for different types of ...
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Please identify this plant

I don't know anything about plants
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Did I understand the definition of "gross primary production" correctly?

According to wikipedia Gross primary production (GPP) is the amount of chemical energy as biomass that primary producers create in a given amount of time. So if a plant creates 6g of biomass in 1 ...
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What are the microscopic mechanisms of plant branching?

For a long time I've been idly interested in how the shape of a complex organism gets determined during development at a microscopic level. Recently I've realized that plants could be a good place to ...
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What types of plants are Gibberellin used on?

On what type of plant (monocot/ eudicot? family? species?) is Gibberellin used on? I searched through many sources but could not find whether Gibberellin works for all plants or just a specific type ...
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Books for learning how plants function

Can you recommend a good, detailed book on how plants function? A book that explains plant processes on a molecular level from roots up to the fruit. I am interested in home crops production, such as ...
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What are these bumps on tomato stem?

What are the bumps on this tomato stem? They are way off the ground so I doubt they are air roots. What are they, what function do they have and why do they form?
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Why does spraying water on plants help them survive in case of frost?

I've heard that spraying water on plants will help them survive the frost. Why is that? Some say that you should do it in the morning right before the sun rises, and others spray water the whole time ...
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What causes leaves to be hydrophobic?

In my garden, I'm growing broccoli. I was spraying it with water the other day, and I noticed that water bounced off the leaves. When I just misted it instead of a full-on spray, the water beads ...
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Where does oxygen come from in winters? [closed]

Since plants shed their leaves and don't perform photosynthesis during winters, where does oxygen come from?
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How do plants maintain air spaces in leaves?

As we know, there are air spaces in the mesophyll layer which allows carbon dioxide to diffuse in and oxygen to diffuse out, but cell membranes are partially permeable and allow water to diffuse to ...
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How do the flowers of Diphylleia grayi become transparent after rain?

Known as the skeleton flower, its flowers turn transparent in rain. How does it do so? How can it gain transparency in rain when water is already present in flower? Or is it because other components ...
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Plant Nutrition

Alfie has two plants, A and B. He used some Vaseline to coat the top of the leaves on plant A and the underside of the leaves on plant B. He left the plants on the windowsill for a week and watered ...
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Why do certain ferns have roughened spore surface?

Ferns such as Anemia phyllitidis, Blotiella lindeniana, Ctenitis hirta, Cystopterix fragilis, Hemionitis palmata and many others have roughened splity spore surface. I ask, why is it evolutionary so?...
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What type of subsoil root structure provides better plant anchorage?

Which type of root is better for good anchorage for small plants: tap roots or fibrous roots?. How about for trees: tap root or a fibrous system?
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Why is pith of Cucurbits hollow when mature?

What is the evolutionary significance of pith in cucurbits? Does it serve a function by being hollow? Or is it an evolutionary vestige? What function would it have had in its ancestors?
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Why does spiral or annular thickening occur in water conducting plant vessels?

From what I behold, spiral and annular thickening of xylem and trachied cell walls leaves a lot of not thickened regions of cell wall. Lignin is the material which prevents water from escaping these ...
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Identifying three species of Datura

I have found a large, wild patch, some 200m long, of mainly Datura Stramonium, in our street. I have always been keenly interested and well read on the shamanic, and - very rare - medicinal uses of ...
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Using anatomical terms for human organs and parts of plants

I know how to apply anatomical directional terms (e.g., dorsal/ventral, anterior/posterior, etc.) for animals as a whole (bipeds and quadrupeds). Recently, I've been studying plant physiology, and I ...
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Separation of sister chromatids diring anaphase without Centrosomes in plant cell during mitosis

As in animal cell during mitosis sister chromatids are separated from each other during Anaphase by the pulling of kinetochore fibers toward their originating poles of centrosomes but as we know that ...
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Why do plants store energy as carbohydrates and not as fats?

In my introductory biology class, we are learning about biomolecules. The textbook says fats are a more efficient energy store than carbohydrates. So my question is - why would plants store their ...
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Why are peas in mendelian genetics different?

In mendelian experiment, yellow seeds were seen to be dominant over green seeds. The peas I've seen are generally green and not yellow. Did he use a different variety of pea plant ? The other trait ...
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How does P-protein (phloem) help in sealing of wounds?

While I was reading a book I found that "P-proteins in the sieve elements of phloem help in sealing of wounds along with callose". So how does p-protein do that, moreover how can it reach to other ...
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Why are root hairs mostly unicellular?

Most root hairs are unicellular but why is it so? What advantages does a plant derive from a unicellular root hair that it couldn't have if it was multicellular?
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What's this spring-like structure in the plant parenchyma cell?

I observed a transverse section of an amaranth stem in biology lesson today. When I boost the magnification to 600X, I found this spring-like structure in one of the parenchyma cells near a vascular ...
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Valve-like layers example in nature?

I am searching for an example in the nature, where a layer of something (skin, coat, film etc) can allow fluid to flow trough (not absorb) from one direction and prevent/repel from other direction. I ...
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What is the difference between intials cells and meristems cells?

Generally plant tissues: meristems tissue: meristems cells, apilal meristems, lateral meristems Non meristem tissue: dermal tissue, vascular tissue, ground tissue my question: What is the ...
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Plant growth in blue light

For the past two weeks, I have been in a group of 3 studying how different lights affect plant growth. So we growth two chickpeas plants and put one in white light and the other in blue light. These ...
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What are the main differences between tubers and taproots?

From reading accessible information about tubers and taproots I recognize that the main differences between tubers and taproots (as well as a fibrous root system) are: Shape Different nutrient ...
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Is this pollen?

The small round "pockets/buns" in the image. I am almost sure it is, but maybe someone knows more. Sample comes from (50.156992, 12.532546) (Google coordinates). It is a re-cultivated tailing in the ...
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Moss CO2 consumption

I wish to calculate how much CO2 would a sq m of moss fixes to glucose in one day, taking about 20 degrees C average temperature, 55% humidity and a regular 8 hour day. Water and nutrients are at ...
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Can some one identify this plant with really sweet smelling flowers?

Could someone help identifying this plant? The flowers on it have a very sweet smell, similar to the night queen.
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Thin layers or laminae that make up a single summer band in tree ring, what are they?

I took the photograph below of some tree rings. Each division on the ruler is 1 millimeter: Each tree ring (the areas between the pizza crusts) represents one seasons worth of growth. The growing ...
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How to explain the colour of these scots pines?

I would like to know why the trunks of scots pines have a particular colour, at least in Estonia, as shown here. The bottom part of the trunks is darker than the upper part. What could explain this? ...
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Are the arrows in this diagram of ATP synthase correct?

I have a question about this image below. Do you think that the pink arrow is actually going in the right direction? I would suggest a LTO sequence and not LOT, since it is in the T state that ADP + ...
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Why do bananas grow curved?

This old common question is still not clear to me. I got this explanation: Bananas go through a unique process known as negative geotropism. Instead of continuing to grow towards the ground, they ...
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Plant cell question in age 12 science test

Can anyone help me answer the questions in the attachment about plant cells. It was a question in my 12 year olds science exam. I'm baffled as I think he has given a good knowledgable answer but it ...
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What is the name of the groove down the middle of an anther?

I thought it had a name along the lines of interlocular groove, but I haven't been able to find that term anywhere.
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What is the molecule responsible of the yellow color of the Agave americana?

Does anybody know what is the molecule responsible of the yellow color at the edges of this plant? I noticed also that the new forming yellow part at the begging stage is soft green until it is ...
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Relation between biomass and radius of roots system

Is there a known relation between the mass of a plant to the size of its roots? For example, can I take the root size to be proportional to the biomass of the plant like in this relation: $$R = R_0 (...
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