In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

These high-performance liquid chromatography plots depict how the co-culture of tobacco plant cells with the typically ...

THESE are plants like you have never seen them before. Vibrant, diverse and possessing an almost microbe-like quality, these images of plant cells were taken by Jan Martinek at Charles University in ...

Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose biosynthesis with zoomed in view. Individual cellulose chains (dark brown) are synthesized by plasma membrane-bound (purple) cellulose synthase enzyme complexes (cream) ...