PREMISE OF THE STUDY:Loss of photosynthesis is a common and often repeated trajectory in nearly all major groups of photosynthetic eukaryotes. One small subset of “apochloritic” diatoms in the genus ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 114, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Functional-Structural Plant Modelling (September 2014), pp. 677-688 (12 pages) • Background and Aims Maximizing photosynthesis at the canopy level is ...

Maize is one of the world's most widely grown crops and is essential to global food security. But like other plants, its growth and productivity can be limited by the slow activity of Rubisco, the ...

The Botany Department offers two undergraduate degrees in biology and botany that give students opportunities to work alongside expert faculty, access our research facilities, and gain hands-on field ...

Alizée Malnoë ascends a spiral staircase to Myers Hall’s fourth floor “greenhouse,” one lacking windows. Just within stands metal shelving, housing trays of seedlings haloed by grow lights. She ...

Miami University's plant biology group, in the College of Arts & Science, provides a broad education in plant biology to botany majors, biology majors, and other majors in the natural sciences.

Plant scientists are working on improving photosynthesis on different fronts, from finding crop varieties that need less water, to tweaking parts of the process in order to capture more carbon dioxide ...

ACCORDING to the regulations of the Cambridge Local Examinations, 1883, junior students can alone take botany, while senior students must take elementary biology instead. What has been the result?

THE first edition of this dictionary was published in 1920. Nine years later a second edition appears. Clearly the scientific workers for whom it was compiled have found the book useful. A Dictionary ...