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

cell walls allow plants to have rigid structures as varied as wood trunks and supple leaves; and vacuoles allow plant cells to change size. What Is the Origin of Chloroplasts? Like mitochondria ...

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

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 ...

I n a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the ...

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 ...

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

Every time I see anything about cell biology, I get super impressed all over again. Each cell is a machine of insane complexity, orders of magnitude more intricate than anything humans have ever made.