Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are studying how these structures form to understand plant growth. Subscribe to our ...

AMES, Iowa – Using a new and super-sensitive instrument, researchers have discovered where a protein binds to plant cell walls, a process that loosens the cell walls and makes it possible for plants ...

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 has captured images of the microscopic ...

A professor of plant molecular biology wants people to know that plants have stem cells too. Just like in the medical world, plant stem cells could support human growth and development when used to ...

Machine irrigates microgreens inside ENEA's Inflatable cultivation module simulating space conditions in Rome, Italy November 4, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli Machine irrigates microgreens inside ENEA's ...

Grid size = 0.426 µm. Credit: Ueda Lab, NIBB Top panels: Root epidermal cells expressing Venus-VAMP727 and mRFP-VAMP721 in wild type (left) and the snx1 mutant (right). The punctate localization ...

It may soon be time to wake up and smell the lab-grown coffee made from cultured plant cells. But it’s not clear whether drinks from this product replicate coffee beans’ complex flavors. Now, a study ...

(a) Examples of medicinal plants and their meristematic tissues as sources for stem cell generation. (b) Advantages of using medicinal plant stem cells in research and industrial applications. (c) In ...

In a narrow strip of land along the Andes mountain range in central Chile, an Indigenous community has long celebrated the ...