This could be the largest survey, using a cryo-electron microscope, of woody plants ever done,” Raymond Whitman, one of the study authors and a researcher in plant physiology at Stanford ...

Most life on Earth depends upon plants for energy. Plants capture light from the sun and use it to build up chemical stores of energy. This is called photosynthesis. The basic structure of a plant ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

In addition to the nucleus, eukaryotic cells may contain several other types of organelles, which may include mitochondria, chloroplasts, the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus, and lysosomes.

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