Trees like this Norway spruce and other woody plants grow taller because of apical dominance, where buds at tip of each limb release hormones to suppress the growth of those lower down the stem ...

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

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.

Witch’s broom occurs when an organism attacks the apical bud of a tree or shrub, causing a disruption in the production of auxin. The concentration of cytokinin builds up and sends a message to ...

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 ...

So, asparagus was cooked rursum/rursus in boiling water, and for centuries nobody knew what that meant. The riddle was finally cracked by Joseph Dommer Vehling, in his 1936 translation of Apicius ...