So, perhaps now is the time to learn what these two rather esoteric terms mean. Almost all flowering plants fall into one of two categories: the monocots or the dicots.

In contrast, dicotyledonous plants - dicots for short - have a pair of leaves at germination before the adult leaves begin appearing. Distinguishing monocots from dicots Examine the leaf vein ...

The present study supports the view that the retinoblastoma functions are shared by two distinct retinoblastoma-related (RBR) protein subfamilies in the monocot cereal species, whereas dicot plants ...