There are a host of other characteristics used to distinguish these two types of flowering plants. Monocots usually have veins that run parallel in the leaf, fibrous root systems and flowers with ...

SERIES 21 | Episode 16. About a quarter of all flowering plants, about 65,000 species from around the globe are monocots. Included in this group are some of our essential survival staples such as ...

Environment ‘Near impossible’ plant-growing technique could revolutionise farming. For the first time, grafting has been made to work in monocots, a type of plant including oats, wheats and ...

Jérôme Salse and colleagues report a reconstruction of the most recent common ancestor of modern monocots and eudicots, which dates to the late Triassic era. Their results represent a resource ...