You probably don’t think you need a botany lesson when all you want to know is how to keep your Christmas tree fresh this season. But explaining a few things might make the whole process make sense.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The secondary phloem of pecan is segmented by narrow rays into radial sectors of varying width. Irregular bands of fibers alternate with ...

Figure 1: Passive phloem loading in plants and in the synthetic tree-on-a-chip. Using our synthetic passive loader, we study in this paper the full dynamics of passive phloem loading, set by the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The secondary phloem of apple consists of sieve-tube elements, companion cells, phloem parenchyma cells, fiber-sclereids, and ray parenchyma ...

Just like animals, plants are made of tiny little cells. Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a nucleus, a cell membrane and cytoplasm. They've also got a vacuole, chloroplasts and a cell wall, ...

Plants come in all shapes and sizes, allowing them to fit into unique niches in the landscape, but they can be quite complex organisms. In order to select the most appropriate plants for a given ...