Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

Antifungal drugs target molecules in the fungal cell wall, a flexible but rigid outer ... with a team at the MSU-Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory (PRL). The PRL team developed ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Fusarium oxysporum is a soil-borne fungal pathogen that causes a group of serious plant diseases known as Fusarium wilts. As ...

plant cell or fungal cell Cell structure Cell wall Description Freely permeable layer surrounding cell membrane. The cell wall of plant cells is made from cellulose. This gives them a rigid structure.

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...