Yes, cuttings from houseplants can be used to generate new houseplants. The process is called “vegetative propagation” ...

The houseplant "mother of thousands" makes the tiny plantlets that drop from the edges of its leaves. New research shows how the houseplant "mother of thousands" (Kalanchoe diagremontiana) makes the ...

How to grow a bumper crop of strawberries to rival Wimbledon - As the tennis championships approach, all thoughts are on this ...

Expression of STM in leaves was essential for making plantlets. In most plants LEC is expressed in seeds, but mother of thousands' version of the gene, LEC1, was expressed in leaves as well.

It is an amazing technology in which scientists can develop thousands of plantlets from a tissue or a mere leaf of a plant. The new plantlets can be grown in a surprisingly short time. At the ...

Adolf Despite their creepy-crawly name, spider plants (Chlorophytum comosum) are among the most popular houseplants to grow. Spider plants are moderately fast-growing plants. Their rosettes of slender ...

A lab worker walks past racks of test tubes containing potato plantlets, in a tissue culture laboratory at a research facility under the International Potato Center (CIP), in the Yanqing district ...

The project, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, began in 2012. The first consignment of 19 varieties in the form of plantlets or laboratory-created small plants were released ...

Good for agriculture These are just samples of healthy bananas whose plantlets are prepared in his laboratory and sold to farmers. “I use tissue culture – which is about multiplying planting ...