People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren't the only ...

Globally, the digitalisation of agriculture requires the increasing use of measurement electronics in farming. However, power supply and electronic ...

We have investigated the capability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to penetrate the cell wall and cell membrane of intact plant cells. Confocal fluorescence images revealed the cellular ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin.

13 Plant cells are the building blocks of all plant life. They are characterized by a rigid cell wall made of cellulose, chloroplasts for photosynthesis and large central vacuoles that store water and ...

Cotton and paper, for example, are made from cellulose. The cell wall also has profound implications for how plants build their bodies. In animals, when new cells are made from existing ones ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t exist. Although they share a lot of similarities, they have quite a few ...

Different from animals, plants can produce organs through the life cycle as their stem cells can keep activity for a very long time. For example, stem cells in the shoot apical region of a tree may be ...

New findings could help researchers engineer plants that are more adaptable to changing environments Every time a stem cell divides, one daughter cell remains a stem cell while the other takes off on ...

and a fantastic way to study them is through the creation of a cell lapbook. A lapbook is a fun, hands-on learning strategy that can be customized for students of all ages and abilities. While little ...

Plant cells are amazing! In this episode, we'll cover wild features inside plant cells! At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their ...