Plants 'breathe' with millions of tiny mouths—lasers illuminate evolution of stomata behavior
Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...
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How plants build their cell walls is seen by scientists for the first time ever
The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...
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Researchers Capture Breakthrough Images of Cellulose Synthesis in Living Plant Cells
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 ...
Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...