Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

A study on beetleweed shows that autopolyploid plants with different chromosome sets can coexist, reshaping how scientists ...

New research from Max Planck Institute reveals how plants defend their genomes from invasion by chloroplast DNA.

The model simulates a cross section of the plant root focusing on the cortical and epidermal tissues. Plant cells are visualized as four‐sided polygons representing the cell walls. For the sake of ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles. These proteins not only sustain seedling growth but also serve as a major ...

Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plants, as a cofactor in multi-heme cytochromes and within iron-sulfur clusters. However, Fe can be toxic at high concentrations. Free Fe in cells can ...