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 ...

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, United States Tobamovirus is a large group of positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that cause ...

The image sequences provide new insights into how this cell structure forms, which could lead to innovations in plant-derived products such as renewable biofuels. Cell walls are made mostly of ...

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An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped chromosomes ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

“This data from our Centre demonstrates that sex hormones and chromosomes work in tandem to impact immune responses, with oestrogen only influencing the frequency of class-switched memory B cells in ...

A research team has uncovered the mechanism and underlying reason behind the transformation of residual cells into epidermal ... valuable insights into plant survival strategies and growth ...

When the researchers looked at human data, they found the same trend. Men who had lost more Y chromosomes were more likely to ...

Plant vs Animal Cells: Lysosomes Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles that are found within cells. Their main role is to break down proteins, acids, large molecules, and unwanted materials ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.