One goes up... and one goes down. I was a college freshman in Botany 101 when I first learned about xylem and phloem, the two transport tissues which carry water and nutrients up and down a tree's ...

You probably don’t think you need a botany lesson when all you want to know is how to keep your Christmas tree fresh this season. But explaining a few things might make the whole process make sense.

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE biology students studying plant tissues, epidermis, palisade mesophyll and spongy mesophyll, xylem, phloem, transpiration, and the effect of ...

With our sustained high summer temperatures plants need a continuous source of water. Water moves from the soil into and throughout a plant delivering water and nutrients via a pipe-like vascular ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 40, No. 219 (October 1989), pp. 1069-1078 (10 pages) The minute changes in volume of a grape berry which occur from hour to hour were measured non-destructively in ...

Circular patches of bark were surgically isolated on the sides of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) trees at breast height at various times during the dormant and growing seasons. Subsequently, ...