Leading plant scientists now explore one of the most fundamental processes in plant biology -- plant movement in response to light, water, and gravity ... positions its flowers for pollinators ...

The general response to gravity in plants is well known: roots respond positively, growing down, into the soil, and stems respond negatively, growing upward, to reach the sunlight. But how do ...

Roots "feel" gravity to extend and anchor themselves in the soil, but they can alter their growth direction toward a water source when needed. However, according to a new study by scientists at the ...

Emily Thompson Flowers, the debut book from the ... the artistry that runs through her works, in which plant material is arranged into gravity defying installations or artfully constructed into ...

The spiral pattern of an Aloe polyphylla plant ... flower Kniphofia uvaria, or the crepe myrtle Lagerstroemia indica) alternate their leaves in the same complicated sequence. Because the leaf ...

The spiral arrangements of leaves on a stem, and the number of petals, sepals and spirals in flower heads during the development of most plants, represent successive numbers in the famous series ...

“You’ve got a zero rate of change in gravity, and that seems to be the trigger for movement in the plant’s cells,” he says. “If you look at enough of these correlations, they all seem to ...