Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose ...

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 ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

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

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

The way we study plant cells ... a standard microscope. So, instead of a zoomed-in picture where individual elements may become blurred or distorted, the physical size of the cells increases ...

Microscopes often have three or four ... Yeast cells have a cell wall, like plant cells, but no chloroplasts. Yeast can reproduce by producing a bud. The bud grows until it is large enough to ...

However, thanks to the state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopes ... of thylakoid membranes—membranes in the chloroplasts of plant cells where the light reaction of photosynthesis takes ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

The microscope-generated video images show protoplasts – cells with their walls removed – of cabbage’s cousin, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, chaotically sprouting filaments of cellulose fibers that ...