Dave Sessions and Beth Succop are the owners of a small Canyon Road business that merges the worlds of horticulture and art.

Xylem is the porous tissue that conducts fluid in plants. In woody plants, it is called sapwood. Surrounded by bark, it often surrounds older, inactive heartwood itself.

Some plants possess the ability to repair breaks in the water columns, but the details of this process in xylem under tension have remained unclear for decades. Brodersen et al .

An international group led by researchers in Finland has discovered the genetic process that controls the development of wood cells in the roots of plants. Xylem (wood cells) is the vascular ...

Day to day, it might be tempting to take plants for granted. But you'd do so at your peril; our leafy brethren are staggeringly complex, as revealed when they're put under the microscope.

In plants it is the opposite: the xylem water is cheap, but the conduit walls are costly. Murray's law is still valid, as long as the conduit wall volume scales directly with total conduit volume.

Plants that need water or have recently had their stems cut produce up to roughly 35 sounds per hour, the authors found. But well-hydrated and uncut plants are much quieter, making only about one ...

Xylem & Phloem, Artful Plants, is located at 821 Canyon Road, No. 2, in the shop that formerly was occupied by the Judy Ortiz Studio Gallery.