Being a massive grower of sugarcane, China could use this crop in the biofuel sector.
However, this critical aspect of the sugarcane crop in China has not been extensively …

Nanoparticles (NPs) interact with living organisms through different pathways. These
interactions depend on chemical nature of NPs, capping, and size, among others. In the last …

The leaf vein, often viewed as the fingerprint of the leaf, is an important characteristic used to
identify plant species. Leaf vein segmentation aims to extract the vein features and obtain …

Premise Across species, main leaf vein density scales inversely with leaf area (A). Yet, minor
vein density manifests no clear relationship with respect to A, despite having the potential to …

Leaf shape is closely related to economics of leaf support and leaf functions, including light
interception, water use, and CO2 uptake, so correct quantification of leaf shape is helpful for …

Premise The phenomenon called “diminishing returns” refers to a scaling relationship
between lamina mass (M) vs. lamina area (A) in many species, ie, M∝ Aα> 1, where α is the …

Leaf vein network geometry can predict levels of resource transport, defence and
mechanical support that operate at different spatial scales. However, it is challenging to …

Introduction Climate change is impacting the wine industry by accelerating ripening
processes due to warming temperatures, especially in areas of significant grape production …

The enucleated vascular elements of the xylem and the phloem offer an excellent system to
test the effect of ploidy on plant function because variation in vascular geometry has a direct …

The vasculature along conifer needles is fundamentally different from that in angiosperm
leaves as it contains a unique transfusion tissue inside the bundle sheath. In this study, we …