A European research-led consortium has been established to pioneer technologies to improve crop resilience to drought stress ...

China The formation of the female germline is the fundamental process in most flowering plants’ sexual reproduction. In Arabidopsis, only one somatic cell obtains the female germline fate, and this ...

In MS, immune system cells mistakenly attack myelin. With stem cell treatment, doctors use chemotherapy to destroy these existing immune cells. Then, they introduce the new stem cells, which are ...

Some plant species had lower auxin levels when floating in microgravity, which curbed their normal pattern of upward stem development. Others had higher levels ... including when and how a plant ...

Growing readily from good-sized bulbs planted in autumn or spring, lilies are hardy and perennial, making a glorious show in big pots or in borders. Flowering stem height varies from as little as 30cm ...

Miller is particularly excited to continue studying these phellogen cells, noting that their stem-cell-like ability to differentiate into other cell types so late into the plant's development is ...

The team introduced bacterial pathogens to the leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana -- a flowering weed in the mustard family commonly used as a model in research. They then analyzed the plant's ...

Plant peptides, synthesized from larger precursor proteins, often undergo proteolytic cleavage and post-translational modifications to form active peptide hormones. This process involves several ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...