A plant cell wall's unique ability to expand without weakening or breaking is due to the movement of its cellulose skeleton, according to new research that models the cell wall. The new study ...

Plant cell walls have a special ability to expand without breaking or weakening, which is crucial for plant growth. New research has shown that the cellulose skeleton of the plant cell wall is what ...

Plant and animal cells can be seen with a microscope. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

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 ...

We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction.

Scientists at Oxford University have discovered the oldest known population of plant root stem cells in a 320-million-year-old fossil.

Jung-Youn Lee, a University of Delaware professor of plant molecular and cellular biology and the interim director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, is researching cell-to-cell communication in ...

Balancing the pressure: How plant cells protect their vacuoles by Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology Editors' notes ...

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 ...

High school biology didn’t do much to make cells seem like fascinating, psychedelic visual art. The plant and animal cell diagrams splashed across textbook pages are a world away from what the ...