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

The way we study plant cells is expanding—literally—thanks ... "We have the low-end microscopes, which are user-friendly but ...

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

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

Pop a cover slip on the slide and then put the slide onto the microscope. Take a look! Check out that strong cell wall structure. It's solid so that it keeps a plant's shape and structure.

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

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...

Plants don't just grow, they build. From towering trees to delicate flowers, complex plant shapes are sculpted with ...

The microscope-generated video images show protoplasts -- cells with their walls removed -- of cabbage's cousin, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, chaotically sprouting filaments of cellulose ...