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

RNA is a signaling molecule inside cells that is used to read the deoxyribonucleic, or DNA, code and convert it into ...

A team of scientists from BGI-Research at Southern University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, and other ...

Mitochondria close mitochondriaTiny parts of cells floating in the cytoplasm where energy is released from glucose. The glucose comes from food. This is how you make a model plant cell.

Students can discuss the roles of parts of the cells that do various jobs when a plant photosynthesises.

Gilroy, S. & Trewavas, A. Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 307–314 (2001) doi:10.1038/35067109. Surpin ...