The shape of a flower's petals and leaves are dictated by a biological map hidden inside the flower's growing bud, a new study finds. Researchers at the John Innes Center and the University of ...

Flowering is a unique and highly programmed process, but hardly anything is known about the developmentally regulated proteome changes in petals. Here, we employed proteomic technologies to study ...

The majority of flowering plants have evolved special conical cells that line the surface of their petals. These cells provide the flower with a rougher texture that is indistinguishable to human ...