Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot ...

The protocol provides an excellent tool to investigate chromosome organization in plant nuclei in all cell types and has been used on tissues of both monocot and dicot plant species.

One of the most immediate uses for the procedure could be in research labs, where grafting is already used regularly to understand how dicots transport material up and down the stem. Nature DOI ...

As their name suggests, these gazanias spread by trailing stems. For quick coverage, plant individual plants 18 inches apart; otherwise, a 24 inch planting distance is sufficient.

The researchers first identified and cloned sequences of monocot B. distachyon's NPR genes-BdNPR1, 2, and 3-which were similar to the NPR sequences of other dicot species, including Arabidopsis.