The study on leaf growth has been published in the journal Nature Plants. "When cells divide and multiply, the result is ...

Salk scientists have created a new atlas of plant cells during immune response, in turn discovering a new rare cell state, called Primary IMmunE Responder (PRIMER), that acts as an immune response hub ...

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 ...

Silicon (Si) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, found in large quantities in soil. While Si is not essential for land plants, many plants, such as rice and grasses, have used Si to develop ...

Human bodies defend themselves using a diverse population of immune cells that circulate from one organ to another ...

Gilroy, S. & Trewavas, A. Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 307–314 (2001) doi:10.1038/35067109. Surpin ...

Plants in the shade of other plants receive more light than scientists had previously believed. A team of researchers from ...

Plants in the shade utilize more light for photosynthesis than previously thought. A team of researchers from Utrecht ...

Scientists explored the evolutionary success of leaf beetles, the most diverse herbivores on Earth. They showed that symbioses with bacteria have evolved repeatedly and independently in different ...