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

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

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

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

All cells have specific structures, called components. Models in science are used to help us ... So there you have it, the building blocks of plant life. A plastic box, a small bag filled with ...

The new shoots and leaves are green because of the chemicals within the plant ... life cycle sketches or diagrams to help them to explore this further. This short film is relevant for teaching ...

and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. "This work is the first direct visualization of how cellulose synthesizes and self-assembles into a dense fibril network on a plant cell ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...