Unlike dicots, monocot stems can't get wider and larger as the tree grows older, they don't form growth rings and they can't repair themselves the way dicots do, the way an old oak can just grow ...

In monocots like this banana, the vessels that carry the moisture and nutrients are spread evenly throughout the stem and there's no real wood as such, whereas, in dicots, like a gumtree, you'll ...

Scientist Matt Humphry of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and his team identified a set of genes regulated by a common protein that has been conserved in the genome of monocot and ...