video: Professor Miltos Tsiantis from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne talks about his recent work in CELL showing how genes act to determine leaf shape. view more ...

Plant biologists have discovered the key element, an EPFL2 peptide that is responsible for creating the teeth-like shapes on plant leaves. The zigzag edges of leaves, so-called leaf teeth, are ...

Subtle changes in genetics can have major effects on how leaves grow into a wide variety of shapes. John Innes Centre Around the globe, plants have evolved to use their leaves for many purposes: broad ...

The advent of deep learning has greatly expanded the frontiers of plant leaf image recognition and identification. Contemporary methodologies integrate convolutional neural networks with traditional ...

The story of a plant is etched in its leaves. A tree growing in a cold environment with plenty of water is more likely to have large leaves with many serrated teeth around the edges. But if the same ...

Bacteria living on and in leaves and roots influence many aspects of plant health, so the extent of a plant’s genetic control over its microbiota is of great interest to crop breeders and evolutionary ...

A study suggests how mechanical forces influence the shapes of plant leaves and flower petals. The genetic and biomolecular mechanisms that give rise to complex 3D shapes in plant organs have been ...

The vine Boquila trifoliolata can be found climbing up other plants in temperate rain forests of Chile and Argentina. The vine produces clusters of three leaflets, but the researchers noticed that the ...