Figure 1: A color-enhanced transmission electron micrograph of spinach leaf mesophyll. The cell walls of plants makes it challenging to use fluorescent dyes to stain organelles inside plant cells ...

Specialised plant cells include root hair, palisade, xylem and phloem cells. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

Plant Sacrifices Cells To Fight Invaders Date: June 1, 2005 Source: National Science Foundation Summary: Researchers recently discovered a gene essential to one of the plant kingdom's key immune ...

One microRNA gene, shown in green, is specifically activated by Arabidopsis thaliana Meristem Layer 1 (ATML1) in the outermost layer of a plant shoot apex. This microRNA determines the concentration ...

Guard cells and three other cell types from Vicia faba L. 'Longpod' leaflets were assayed for enzymes that catalyze one step in each of five major carbon pathways in green plants: the photosynthetic ...

Gilroy, S. & Trewavas, A. Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 307–314 (2001) doi:10.1038/35067109.