Many of the flowers in my garden are flowering or about to flower. But did you know that many of our native (and non-native) grasses are also beginning to flower? This isn’t so great for those of us ...

The "spikelet meristem" (SM) plays a central role during the development of the grass inflorescence. Meristems are plant cells or tissues that have the capacity to produce new organs - in this case ...

Scientists are interested in understanding genetic control of grass inflorescence architecture because seeds of cereal grasses (e.g. rice, wheat, maize) provide most of the world's food. Grass seeds ...

We use emergence, the inability to predict the properties of higher hierarchical levels from the properties of lower, as a means of exploring some abstract properties of individuals. Biological ...

Maize as we know it only became suitable for food after the tiny, hard, inedible ears of teosinte, the ancestor of corn, evolved, with the help of the first Mexican farmers, into the large, luscious ...