Why do poppies and sunflowers grow as a single flower per stalk while each stem of a tomato plant has several branches, each carrying flowers? In a new study, published in this week's issue of the ...

Recent phylogenetic reconstructions suggest that axially condensed flower-like structures evolved iteratively in seed plants from either simple or compound strobili. The simple-strobilus model of ...

Inflorescence architecture is the arrangement of flowers and their underlying stem branching patterns, and it has important effects on the yield of the fruits or grains from agricultural plants. A new ...