A study suggests a new model for how glutamate receptor-like proteins (GLRs) function in plant cells. Working with Arabidopsis thaliana pollen cells, the researchers found that GLRs form the basis ...

Animal and plant cells can be visualised using a model. Find out how to make them with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14. ... All cells have specific structures, ...

A team from the University of Illinois has quantified the plant cell properties in two C4 species, including cell shape, chloroplast size, and distribution of cell-to-cell connections called ...

Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

Their work entailed sorting through and genetically manipulating the functions of a complicated alphabet soup of plant proteins in controlled experiments using a model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

A plant cell wall's unique ability to expand ... By stretching the onion cell walls in several ways and using molecular insights from the model, they explored the structures responsible for the ...

Plant cell walls have a special ability to expand without breaking or weakening, ... An onion cell wall was used in this model so the researchers could stretch actual onion skins to test its validity.

Fourteen cells from the Arabidopsis thaliana plant were imaged every six minutes for about 24 hours as they regenerated their cell walls.The glow shows cellulose, chains of sugar molecules, which ...

So, Lam’s team developed their own, custom-built imaging platform. The cells that star in the team’s wall-building video were protoplasts of Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant belonging to ...