A eukaryote is any cell or organism that possesses a clearly defined nucleus. Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex, multicellular life, including apple trees, mushrooms, fish and humans.

Dermal tissue stops the plant from losing too much water. Examples of tissues in animals include muscle tissue and nerve tissue. Muscle tissue: made of muscle cells that can contract and relax to ...

Using the example of plant roots, the researchers have now been able to decipher which regulatory mechanisms ensure that ...

Therefore, the new findings could have far-reaching consequences, for example on the deposition of cellulose in plant cell walls and thus on biomass and cellulose production. However, it must ...

Plant cells can’t move around, so to deal with infection they ... which raises the question of whether similar mechanisms might be at work beyond plants, Dong said. In animals, for example, microbial ...

Cell to cell fusion is known to be extremely rare in plant cells due to the presence of the relatively tough cell wall. Only two other examples of plant cell fusion have been observed so far, and ...

Osaka, Japan – Plants have an impressive ability to regenerate damaged tissues, but how they do it is not fully understood. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered the mechanisms involved in ...