Tiny water-secreting pores appear to organize the major veins of the plant leaves into an arrangement known as a Voronoi ...

Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ferns have evolved. Instead of the vascular structure inside fern stems ...

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth ...

Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn colors, or taste, and the arrangement of leaves on a plant is a practical way to identify a species. However, the details of how plants control their leaf ...

Photo Slideshow: The Science Behind Leaf Vein Patterns Blonder won the UA Graduate and Professional Student Showcase President's Award for his work, which was published this week online in the journal ...

Chinese Money Plant leaves hide a mathematical pattern shaping leaf veins in Voronoi geometry. This discovery shows nature ...

Pick up a leaf and it is hard not to notice the pattern made by the veins. For years, biologists, mathematicians and even poets and philosophers have tried to decipher the rules and regulations behind ...

In the late 1950s, a substance that promoted plant cell division was discovered in autoclaved herring sperm DNA and was called kinetin 1. A few years later, a class of phytohormones with similar ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...