New research led by plant biologists at UC Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how plants control mutation rates in different stem cells to balance ...

Scientists in China and the Netherlands say they have discovered how a single plant cell can regenerate into an entirely new plant by flipping two genetic switches. They said the findings could help ...

Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. This work by the Meng lab investigates the role of the proteins MARK2 and CAMSAP2 in the Golgi reorientation during cell polarisation and ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin. We ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose biosynthesis with zoomed in view. Individual cellulose chains (dark brown) are synthesized by plasma membrane-bound (purple) cellulose synthase enzyme complexes (cream) ...

Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

THE interesting letter of Prof. Bose, in NATURE of Dec. 3, on the Golgi apparatus of plant cells, may serve us as reason for discussing shortly the present position of our knowledge of this branch of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 26 (June 28, 2022), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) As a sedentary epithelium turns motile during wound healing, ...

Secondary cell wall (SCW) production during xylem development requires massive up-regulation of hemicellulose (e.g. glucuronoxylan) biosynthesis in the Golgi. Although mutant studies have revealed ...

The Golgi apparatus modifies, sorts and packages proteins to be sent to their final destinations, whether that's within or outside of the cell. It's a core function, but little studied in the setting ...

A team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane. Botanists have come to understand the channels and ...