The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

The way we study plant cells is expanding—literally ... making tiny details easier to see under a standard microscope. So, instead of a zoomed-in picture where individual elements may become ...

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...

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

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 ...