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

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.

Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer, is utilized to make a wide range of products like clothes and paper. Also, it helps ...

A plant cell wall is arranged in layers and contains cellulose microfibrils, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin, and soluble protein. These components are organized into three major layers: the primary ...

The above figure from the U.S. Department of Energy gives a graphic depiction of the composition of plant cell wall (biomass). Cellulose and hemicellulose contain sugars which can be converted ...

In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls allow plants to have rigid structures as varied as wood trunks and ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has captured images of the ...