Monocots usually have veins that run parallel in the leaf, fibrous root systems and flowers with multiples of three parts. Dicots usually have netlike (reticulated) veins, a prominent tap root and ...

By definition, a monocot has only one cotyledon (seed leaf), whereas a dicot has two cotyledons; dicot flowers tend to have petals in multiples of four or five, branching leaf veins and tap roots ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consistent with this notion, several genes required for AMS have been conserved throughout evolution5 and their symbiotic functions preserved, at least between monocot and dicot plants6,7.