Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

A research team has uncovered the mechanism and underlying reason behind the transformation of residual cells into epidermal ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls ... images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over 24 hours ...

From towering trees to delicate flowers, complex plant shapes ... how can cells communicate across the organ to coordinate their growth and produce complex shapes? Plants are built of tiny cells that ...

The opaque nature of these solar cells can block sunlight reaching plants and hinder their growth. As such, there’s a need for ... as well as a change in the metabolite profile of the plant. Lower UV ...

If stem cells were able to multiply uncontrollably, this would lead to uncontrolled growth, as in the case of cancer. WOX5 is an important signaling molecule that regulates stem cells in the meristem.

The sugar can be broken down in plant cells by the process of respiration to generate ... very tough molecule that is used to build the cell wall of plant cells. Plant cells can also combine ...

Extracts made from parts of the cashew plant ... L1 cells, which are cells that transform into mature adipocytes. They specifically examined each extract’s effect on that transformation process ...