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

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of ...

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 ...

releasing energy for the cell Plant and animal cells Large central vacuole Contains a liquid called cell sap, which keeps the cell firm Plant cells only Cell wall Made of a tough substance called ...

Stem cells function as a source of new cells to grow or replace specialised tissues. To perform this function, these cells must divide to renew themselves, while some of their descendants ...

The protein she studied, PORCUPINE, was discovered because plants with a mutation in this gene became particularly ...

The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system ... many different types of cells in plants. Each type is specialised ...

A powerful new toolkit for plant biology Although ExPOSE is currently used to study individual cells, Cox envisions an even ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by ...