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 ...

However, paradoxically, there are witchweeds — dicot plants of the genus Striga that live as devastating parasites attached to the roots of monocot crops such as maize and sorghum 4.

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 ...

Your plant belongs to either the monocotyledonous (monocot) or a dicotyledonous (dicot) plant group. ... Cut a corn or lily stem back and you can expect it to do – nothing.

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 ...