Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot ...

Dicots have two seed leaves or cotyledons and monocots have one. The two halves of a kidney bean are known as seed leaves, the first “leaves” to show themselves when the seed germinates.

Ágnes Lendvai, Aladár Pettkó-Szandtner, Éva Csordás-Tóth, Pál Miskolczi, Gábor V. Horváth, János Györgyey, Dénes Dudits, Dicot and monocot plants differ in retinoblastoma-related protein subfamilies, ...

By definition, a monocot has only one cotyledon (seed leaf), whereas a dicot has two cotyledons; dicot flowers tend to have petals in multiples of four or five, branching leaf veins and tap roots ...

Read time: Less than a minute Scientist Matt Humphry of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and his team identified a set of genes regulated by a common protein that has been ...

Veins on monocots either run down the entire length of the leaf or run parallel away from the mid-rib. Veins on dicot leaves radiate out from a central rib and branch and re-branch.

The researchers first identified and cloned sequences of monocot B. distachyon's NPR genes-BdNPR1, 2, and 3-which were similar to the NPR sequences of other dicot species, including Arabidopsis.

Scientist Matt Humphry of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and his team identified a set of genes regulated by a common protein that has been conserved in the genome of monocot and ...