Oil bodies are intracellular structures present in the seed and leaf cells of many land plants. Seed oil bodies are known to function as storage compartments for lipids. However, the physiological ...

A Delhi University (DU) study has found that the Capital’s toxic air could be detrimental to plant life, reducing chlorophyll ...

"The really interesting question is how a leaf with a certain form produces a certain function." Blonder developed a mathematical model to predict the functions of leaves based on three properties of ...

Newly published research carried out at the University of Guam has used a critically endangered species to show how trees modify leaf function to best exploit prevailing light conditions. The findings ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The assessment of leaf strategies has been a common theme in ecology, especially where multiple sources of environmental constraints (fire, ...