The cannabis plant has several different parts, some more familiar to consumers than others. Most consumers know what leaves, stems, and buds are, and they may even be familiar with cannabinoids.

Spider–plant interactions encompass a continuum of relationships in which plants use specialised structures, notably glandular trichomes, to produce sticky exudates and chemicals that deter or trap ...

Dear Dan, I’m a newby to the pot world but I love to smoke and I hope to grow someday soon. I want to learn everything there is to know about marijuana but, like I said, I’m a total newcomer to the ...

Trichomes are the sticky part of the plant, they are mushroom-looking glands that produce and store all the compounds that get us high. These glands have a width that ranges from 10 to 100 nanometers ...

Guam cycads' hairy problem allows invasive insect to flourish. Everyone needs to eat. But it's a dog-eat-dog world, and with the exception of the top predators, everyone also gets eaten. To cope with ...

But if you were to look even more closely at these crystals through a microscope, you would discover that they aren’t really crystals at all — they are small resin-coated growths that protrude out of ...

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...

Glandular trichomes on tomato plants serve as microscopic chemical factories that synthesize and accumulate acylsugars – specialised metabolites with diverse structures and potent defensive properties ...