There are a host of other characteristics used to distinguish these two types of flowering plants. Monocots usually have veins that run parallel in the leaf, fibrous root systems and flowers with ...

However, paradoxically, there are witchweeds — dicot plants of the genus Striga that live as devastating parasites attached to the roots of monocot crops such as maize and sorghum 4.

Scientist Matt Humphry of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and his team identified a set of genes regulated by a common protein that has been conserved in the genome of monocot and ...

Lilies are monocotyledons, plants which have flower parts in multiples of three, parallel leaf veins and fibrous, branching roots.

Any plant that has a single leaf at germination is called a monocot. In contrast, dicotyledonous plants - dicots for short - have a pair of leaves at germination before the adult leaves begin ...