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

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

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

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

A plant cell wall is arranged in layers and contains cellulose microfibrils, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin, and soluble protein. These components are organized into three major layers: the primary ...

In a world increasingly aware of the environmental impact of fossil fuels, researchers are embarking on a venture to find ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has captured images of the microscopic ...

Rutgers’ biophysicists, bioengineers and plant biologists capture first live images of cellulose construction leading to ...

The presence of the plant cell wall prevents plant cells from bursting. Water will diffuse from a higher water concentration inside the cell to a lower water concentration outside the cell.

Plant cells have rigid cell walls made of cellulose, which prevent uniform expansion. Cox and his team tackled this issue by using protoplasts—plant cells with their walls removed—allowing ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the ...