How flower petals get their shape
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 10:31
in Biology & Nature
By Denise ChowLiveScience 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 East Anglia, both located in Norwich in the United Kingdom, studied how petals and leaves grow in a type of small flowering plantcalled Arabidopsis. They discovered that concealed ma...