On the left, an Arabidopsis plant is shown, with the growing shoot ... The cells marked in red are the shoot stem cells; the cells in blue express the WUS gene and are required to maintain the ...

By this definition, stem cells are particularly important for plant growth ... as a long-term source of new cells to build up the shoot and the root. However, the experiments described above ...

Animal cells and plant cells can form tissues ... root that will become the adult plant below ground Plumule The young shoot or stem that will become the adult plant above ground.

Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

Silicon (Si) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, found in large quantities in soil. While Si is not essential for land plants, many plants, such as rice and grasses, have used Si to develop ...

Scientists have created a new atlas of plant cells during immune response, in turn discovering a new rare cell state, called Primary IMmunE Responder (PRIMER), that acts as an immune response hub ...

Biologists have identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism.

Human bodies defend themselves using a diverse population of immune cells that circulate from one organ to another, responding to everything from cuts to colds to cancer. But plants don’t have this ...

The first is cell division, where new cells are created. This occurs in specific areas of the plant called apical meristems, ...

Scientists had previously tried transferring plant chloroplasts into fungi cells, but the cells’ cleanup squad destroyed foreign organelles within hours. For their attempt, Matsunaga’s group ...

Iowa State University scientists recently made a significant breakthrough in scientists’ ability to identify specific ...