News tagged with plant cell biology
Research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has greatly accelerated scientists' knowledge on how plants and crops can ...
Scientists Identify Stem-Cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cells—all clumped together—divide throughout ...
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Hormone clue to root growth
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary to ...
Protein that triggers plant cell division
Jun 11, 2009 |
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From the valves in a human heart to the quills on a porcupine to the petals on a summer lily, the living world is as varied as it is vast. For this to be possible, the cells that make up these living things must be just as ...
The emerging story of plant roots
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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An international group of European and US scientists led by the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology at The University of Nottingham have uncovered a fascinating new insight into the unseen side of plant biology — the root.
Scientists unveil mechanism for 'up and down' in plants
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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VIB researchers at Ghent University, Belgium, discovered how the transport of an important plant hormone is organized in a way that the plant knows in which direction its roots and leaves have to grow. They discovered how ...
Researcher identifies genetic pathway responsible for much of plant growth
May 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a previously unknown pathway in plant cells that regulates plant growth.
Cell death occurs in the same way in plants, animals and humans
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Research has previously assumed that animals and plants developed different genetic programs for cell death. Now an international constellation of research teams, including one at the Swedish University of ...
New gene that helps plants beat the heat
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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Michigan State University plant scientists have discovered another piece of the genetic puzzle that controls how plants respond to high temperatures. That may allow plant breeders to create new varieties of crops that flourish ...
Advance in understanding cellulose synthesis
Jun 14, 2009 |
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Cellulose is a fibrous molecule that makes up plant cell walls, gives plants shape and form and is a target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich ...
Root system architecture arises from coupling cell shape to auxin transport
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Plants come in all shapes and sizes, from grand Redwood trees to the common Snowdrop. Although we cannot see them, under the ground plants rely on a complex network of roots. What determines the pattern of root growth has ...
Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have discovered a key missing link in the so-called signaling pathway for plant steroid hormones (brassinosteroids). Many important signaling ...
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