Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer, is utilized to make a wide range of products like clothes and paper. Also, it helps ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a microscope for the several hours needed for them to build walls. Plant cells are ...

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

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

Nevertheless, such observations are complex─they require delicate samples kept in the liquid phase, low electron dose, and proper cell viability verification methods. Despite being highly demanding, ...

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly and to assemble ... A paper in Science Advances by Gyeong Mee Yoon, associate professor of botany ...

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 fibers ...

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 ...

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 fibers that ...

"Every time we would get these samples," says Zehr, "we would look through the microscope and there's nothing ... This was a mighty challenge. The cells kept dying. Paleontologist Kyoko Hagino ...