Plant cell wall growth is typically described as a simple process, but researchers using a microscope that can resolve images on the nanoscale level have observed something more complex. A close-up ...

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. We ...

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 ...

Imagine if our bodies could grow new organs throughout our entire lives. Plants do this constantly, thanks to tiny, powerful reservoirs of stem cells. But how do these cells know when to divide, and ...

Using a new method to isolate and reprogram plant cells into other cell types, biologists explored how banding patterns that increase the stability of plant cell walls are created and how their ...

Biomechanics reveals cell wall age properties and how newly born cells can change their local shape and influence the growth of plant organs Scientists reveal new plant cell walls can have ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A plant cell wall's unique ability to expand without weakening or breaking--a quality required for plant growth--is due to the movement of its cellulose skeleton, according to ...

A simple, high-throughput strategy to measure the stiffness of bacterial cells could be a boon in the hunt for new antibiotics, according to its developers (Mol. Microbiol., DOI: ...

ISOLATED CELL-WALL ENZYMES from different bacteria make cell-wall polymers with different chain lengths, even under chemically identical conditions, Harvard University researchers report (J. Am. Chem.

Jeff Errington receives funding from the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the 17th-century Dutch scientist, was the first person to see single-celled ...