The number of cotyledons is used to classify flowering plants as either monocots, species with one cotyledon, or dicots, species with two cotyledons.

The mechanism of plant defense mediated by the non-expressor of pathogenesis-related (NPR) genes in monocots (plants having a single embryonic leaf) is not well-documented. Now, scientists have ...

Grafting of monocots — the production of a plant that has roots and shoots from different plants — has a history of failure. Reeves et al . 1 report a successful monocot grafting method.

Sherwin Carlquist, Monocot Xylem Revisited: New Information, New Paradigms, Botanical Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (1 June 2012), pp. 87-153 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and ...