Auxin is the first plant hormone—or "phytohormone"—ever identified, with its discovery dating to the late 19th and early 20th ...

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell ...

A team of scientists from BGI-Research, Southern University of Science and Technology and other institutions has unveiled the most detailed single-cell map of a plant ever created, providing new ...

Here's how scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick witnessed living plant cells building their own cell walls. A team of researchers have captured continuous photographs of cellulose synthesis ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose regenerating on a plant protoplast cell surface ... and assembles into a microfibril network (brown), forming the main scaffold for the cell wall. Credit: Ehsan Faridi/ ...

Department of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan ...

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States Renewable Bioproducts Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia ...

However, tea plant has the characteristic of high fluorine ... Moreover, the F was positively correlated with most of the cell wall materials, with a significant correlation with cellulose, mannose, ...

Plant cells have two main modes of growth generating anisotropic structures. Diffuse growth where whole cell walls extend in specific directions, guided by anisotropically positioned cellulose fibers, ...