Click on the right arrow to take a closer look at one of the trichomes on the leaf. Biology in the background Leaves are surprisingly complex structures that do more than gather food from sunlight.

The leaf is one of the most important organs of a plant. Leaves produce food for the plant through a process called photosynthesis. The leaves of different plants vary widely in size, shape and ...

The paper found there are abundant RNAs on leaf surfaces that are surprisingly ... Zand Karimi of the Indiana University Department of Biology, Patricia Baldrich and Blake C.

The work has been published in Current Biology. Through this comparative analysis across all leaf beetle subfamilies, the researchers could understand how the current distribution of the beetle's ...

Leaf beetles can be found to feed on almost ... Jena and the Mutualisms Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, Germany, have now asked how leaf beetles have overcome ...

It is set against the background of a moss leaf. Click on the right arrow to see another desmid on a moss leaf. Biology in the background Desmids are green algae that come in many different shapes and ...

which facilitated the evolutionary success of leaf beetles. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, Germany ...

This allows it to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose. This glucose is: After a few minutes, the parts of the leaf that contain starch turn the iodine from brown to blue/black.