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

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Plant cells have some specialized properties that make them distinct from animal cells. Learn how special structures, such as chloroplasts and cell walls, create this distinction.

Two hundred years later, biology professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo is still thinking about the Irish Potato Famine. Or, the ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

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

A look at the cells of different organisms and a comparison of the structures found in plant and animal cells. All animal cells are surrounded by a membrane which contains the cytoplasm.

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly ... disrupt chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who is also a member of the Purdue ...

A research team has uncovered the mechanism and underlying reason behind the transformation of residual cells into epidermal ...