Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

Elementary school students often learn that plants grow toward the light. This seems straightforward, but in reality, the genes and pathways that allow plants to grow and move in response to their ...

Here we are, the last week of August. The summer season is coming to an end, the kids are going back to school, our veggie beds and flower containers are winding down —although my overwintered ...

Plants are fixed at a place with their roots in the ground, so they cannot move from one place to another. That is plant do not show movement of the entire body. However, movement of the individual ...

VARIOUS explanations of the interesting phenomena classed as tropisms have, from time to time, been put forward; ranging from Loeb's completely mechanical hypothesis 1 to the point of view of Russell ...