近日，沈阳农业大学李天来院士和许涛教授课题组在The Plant Cell上在线发表题为A regulatory network involving calmodulin controls phytosulfokine peptide ...

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 ...

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found ...

Plant cells exhibit totipotency, or the ability to regrow a whole new plant from a single cell. While our cells differentiate ...

But plants don't have this luxury. Because plant cells are immobile, each individual cell is forced to manage its own immunity in addition to its many other responsibilities, like turning sunlight ...

A new mini-review published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts examines how environmental factors, particularly ...

Channels in plant cell walls, called plasmodesmata, provide molecules with a bridge to move between cells, an essential phenomenon for cellular growth and development. The mystery has long been ...

A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories -- using E. coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant ...

In a nutshell A common desert plant called Artemisia herba-alba contains compounds that can effectively kill colorectal ...