Where Wildflowers Grow

Cell growth: How to grow and where to grow

Root hairs provide a model system for studying tip growth in plants. The recent cloning of genes required for tip growth has shed new light on the link between ionic regulation, cell wall assembly and the cytoskeleton in cell growth.

Where Do We Grow From Here?

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala. And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

Pollinator-mediated assemblage processes in California wildflowers.

Community assembly is the result of multiple ecological and evolutionary forces that influence species coexistence. For flowering plants, pollinators are often essential for plant reproduction and establishment, and pollinator-mediated interactions may influence plant community composition. Here, we use null models and community phylogenetic analyses of co-occurrence patterns to determine the r...

Park Plants Wildflowers To Control Maintenance Costs

Inearly 1981 the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks, through its Bureau of Parks, began to identify a potential problem in operations. Developed park acreage was expanding so rapidly that the staff envisioned a time in the near future when the overall maintenance requirements would vastly outstrip the available operatingbudget dollars. The rate of development between 1975 and 1987...