Oil bodies are intracellular structures present in the seed and leaf cells of many land plants. Seed oil bodies are known to function as storage compartments for lipids. However, the physiological ...

"The really interesting question is how a leaf with a certain form produces a certain function." Blonder developed a mathematical model to predict the functions of leaves based on three properties of ...

Guest presenter David Fripp is a keen collector of plants. He loves their variety and hates the idea of being limited to just one thing, so he has multiple collections. How plants use foliage to ...

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Plant biologists are facing pressure to quantify the response of plants to changing environments and to breed plants that can respond to such changes. One method of monitoring the response of plants ...

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Pheophorbide a oxygenase (PaO) is a key enzyme in chlorophyll catabolism that is known to suppress cell death in maize and Arabidopsis. The catalytic activity of PaO in chlorophyll degradation has ...

Lidar remote sensing has shown high accuracy/precision for quantification of forest biophysical parameters needed for ecological management. Although the significant effect of Bidirectional Scattering ...