There are several examples of dicot plant which are distributed from our home garden to dense forest. Dicot plants are characterized by their...

The bryophyta are the first land habiting plants which includes 960 genera and 25,000 species. The plants belonging to Bryophyta are...

Wilting is defined as the rolling, folding or dropping of leaves and young stem due to loss of turgidity. It occurs due to high transpiration...

Guttation mainly occurs in tropical plants during hot and summer days. The droplets are mainly found on surface of leaf or at the apex part o...

In the earlier days, botany was not broadly divided and all sub-disciplines (branches) were studies under same course. As the division of bot...

Photosynthesis is defined as an anabolism process in which carbon dioxide and water is converted into glucose, t...

Photoperiodism is the effect of duration of light on living organism. It is also defined as the effect of photoperiod (duration of light) on ...

Chloroplast is the most common plastid which contains pigments for photosynthesis. It...

Transpiration is defined as the loss of excess water from aerial parts of plant in the form of water vapour. Transpiration in plant removes&a...

Osmosis is the movement of solvent from higher water potential to lower water potential through a semi-permeable...

Osmosis is defined as the movement of solvent from higher concentration to lower co...