The approaches and instrumentation used by plant cell biologists provides much of the foundation necessary for chemical biology, and increased funding of basic research in plant cell biology will ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers ...

Specialised plant cells include root hair cells, palisade cells, xylem cells and phloem cells. Just like animals, plants are made of tiny little cells. Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a ...

the bulk of the funding from the Department of Agriculture has not gone to competitive basic research and the Biology Directorate program at the National Science Foundation is relatively small, with ...

Mario C. De Tullio is Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Bari, Italy. He received his M.A. in Biology and his Ph.D in Plant Physiology from the University of Bari ...