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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Model of a plant cell: The scientists discovered that the smaller the circle (yellow) that fits inside the cell, the smaller the stress it can resist. ... and how the plant might use cell shape to ...

This model is the first to include wall fibers and also reflected the tremendous internal pressure of a plant cell - 90 pounds per square inch, about the same pressure as a road-bike tire. The model ...

Plant biologists have succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg cells in plants divides unequally (asymmetric cell division) after being fertilized. The direction of this asymmetric cell ...

Back-to-back papers in the Dec. 29 issue of Nature Plants report the first complete protein structures for plant respiratory supercomplex I+III2. Obtaining these structures helps researchers ...