Researchers from the University of Helsinki, in collaboration with their Canadian colleagues, have demonstrated how strawberry inflorescence development is dictated by the small growing points, called ...

Multiple gibberellins (GAs) were quantified in the stems of intact, decapitated, and decapitated auxin-treated barley (Hordeum vulgare) plants. Removal of the developing inflorescence reduced the ...

Grasses have evolved a wide variety of inflorescences, in which the seeds are arranged in many different ways: Some types form complex, branched inflorescences with multiple seeds, while others—such ...

1. The structure of the inflorescence, the flower, and the fruit of the pineapple, Ananas comosus (L.) Merr., is described and interpreted. 2. The collective fruit is composed of numerous fruitlets ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Indeterminate inflorescence is the term for a flower spike which blooms from the base up, meaning that as the stem grows, the potential for flowering is unlimited. This concept, and various concepts ...

Among all of the large flowers, Rafflesia arnoldi produces the biggest single bloom. Native to the rainforests of Malaysia and Indonesia, where it is one of three national flowers, the so-called ...