Do existing plants represent all theoretically possible combinations of structure and function for growth, survival and reproduction? To answer this question an international team from 14 countries ...

Plant species vary greatly in how efficiently they convert sunlight into organic matter, how fast they reproduce, how much nutrients and water they need, how much carbon they store, or how fast their ...

An international research team succeeded in identifying global factors that explain the diversity of form and function in plants. The researchers collected and analyzed plant data from around the ...

Attempts to model form-function relationships for fossil plants rely on the facts that the physiological and structural requirements for plant growth, survival, and reproductive success are remarkably ...

Vol. 137, No. 1, Selected papers from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NITROGEN FIXATION WITH NON-LEGUMES (November (I), 1991), pp. 25-36 (12 pages) Nostoc, a genus of ...

Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy little alien mouths. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’re getting up close ...

Intended to supplement the author's Manual of woody landscape plants. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...

Dezeen.com I go there to be reminded of how beautiful design can be problem-solving. Form and function and aesthetics are most powerful when blended. @neiltyson An astrophysicist and science ...

Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today’s terrestrial biosphere. By ...