Plant cell walls have a special ability to expand without breaking or weakening, which is crucial for plant growth. ... but these bundles can slide against one another when the cell has to stretch, ...

A plant cell wall's unique ability to expand without weakening or breaking is due to the movement of its cellulose skeleton, ... and slide against each other when the cell is stretched, ...

The American Society of Plant Biologists announces the launch of "Teaching Tools in Plant Biology" in its high-impact journal, The Plant Cell. Teaching Tools is a monthly, online-only feature that ...

Drop the cover slip on the slide and stick it on the microscope. Go find those animal cells! Unlike the plant cells, animal cells are soft and fleshy. Animals don't need cells to keep their structure.

The plant and animal cell diagrams splashed across textbook pages are a world away from what the billions of cells dividing, dying or busily making proteins actually look like.

Raman imaging of plant cell walls represents a nondestructive technique that can provide insights into chemical composition in context with structure at the micrometer level (<0.5 μm). The major ...

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 ...

Damage to the cell wall can lead to vacuole rupture and cell death. A conserved mechanism involving ATG8ylation, where ATG8 is relocated to the vacuole membrane, helps protect against this.

Single-cell analysis has shown that a lot of information can be lost by analyzing homogenates of tissues. This protocol describes how to remove the contents of a single plant cell and directly ...

The oldest known population of plant root stem cells have now been found in a 320-million-year-old fossil. The cells, which gave rise to the roots of an ancient plant, were found in a fossilized ...

Drop the cover slip on the slide and stick it on the microscope. Go find those animal cells! Unlike the plant cells, animal cells are soft and fleshy. Animals don't need cells to keep their structure.