Imagine if our bodies could grow new organs throughout our entire lives. Plants do this constantly, thanks to tiny, powerful reservoirs of stem cells. But how do these cells know when to divide, and ...

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 microscopic ...

Vishwakarma said this research is the first showing real-time reactions for unstable oxygen molecules measured at ...

In the quiet world of plant molecular biology, few questions are as consequential as how an ordinary leaf cell can be persuaded to abandon its identity and start life over again as an embryo. A new ...

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PULLMAN, Wash. — Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing energy-rich nutrients. And yet the process of how the walls begin ...