Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot, the ...

In an earlier story, we discussed the characteristics of monocots and talked about some of the beautiful native monocot flowers that grow locally from bulbs and corms. Some of my favorites include ...

At least two components that modulate plant resistance against the fungal powdery mildew disease are ancient and have been conserved since the time of the monocot-dicot split (≈200 Mya). These ...

Christoph Hemetsberger, André N. Mueller, Alexandra Matei, Christian Herrberger, Götz Hensel, Jochen Kumlehn, Bagdevi Mishra, Rahul Sharma, Marco Thines, Ralph Hückelhoven and Gunther Doehlemann ...