meridiem

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"In the beginning, everybody had the seedlings, so the crossing and then the seed pods give plants, but we at Floricultura introduced meristems," Stefan Kuiper tells me.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

They are focusing on the genes which control the development of plant meristems -- a type of tissue comprising undifferentiated cells -- and how environmental factors affect these processes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2024

This new research identified the LSH1/LSH2 genetic programme, which is recognised as being involved in shoot meristems and organ boundaries in leaves and flowers, was being recruited in roots to confer nodule identity.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

Plant growth happens in meristems, or regions of unspecialized cells in which mitosis produces new cells that are ready for differentiation.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

I'm sure she has many good qualities which will unfold one by one, as her meristems start differentiating.

From The Venus Trap by Smith, Evelyn E.