In cases where the apical bud or buds in a woody plant are indiscriminately removed, such as when deer browse, it can cause serious problems as the plant scrambles to reallocate energy.

The world’s oldest surviving cookbook is a collection of Imperial Roman recipes, compiled around the 1st century AD. In the intervening millennia the book, Apicius De Re Coquinaria, has ...

Plums are a classic English fruit, with the 'Victoria' variety being the nation's favourite. The fruit trees naturally love ...

However, the apical bud or tip bud is dominant because it produces a substance called auxin, which it sends down the stem. This auxin tells the other buds to remain dormant.

The control of bud outgrowth has been studied by many generations of researchers. One particular focus has been the phenomenon of apical dominance. For more than 100 years it has been known that ...

If the concentration of cytokinin is greater than auxin, shoots form. Witch’s broom occurs when an organism attacks the apical bud of a tree or shrub, causing a disruption in the production of ...

The North Hollywood weather station — which is closer to my residence than any of the other 273 such stations throughout California — recorded well over 400 winter chill hours, explaining the ...

Botanically speaking, the growing tip of a plant is called the apical bud, which is a place of rapid cell division and differentiation. After new cells are created, they become specialized into ...