Explores the structure and function of green plants, focusing on their three main parts: roots, stems, and leaves. Roots anchor the plant and absorb water and minerals through root hairs.

It takes water and nutrients up from the ground. This is a stem. It carries the water and nutrients to the different parts of the plant. Leaves absorb light and make food for the plant.

Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate ... mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. This evidence now provides environmental ...

The research appears in the journal Nature. All the above-ground parts of a plant -- leaves, buds, stems and seeds -- ultimately arise from a small tissue at the shoot tip, which contains ...

Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate ... mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. This evidence now provides environmental ...