How can plants react to so many chemicals? Do they need a vast array of sensors? New research says not.
Tag - cell biology
Alun Salt
Establishing the cell biology of apomixis in Boechera
The genus Boechera (Brassicaceae) is comprised of both sexual and apomictic species, permitting comparative analyses of meiotic disturbances and parthenogenesis. Hybridization, polyploidy and environmental adaptation...
Alex Assiry
The cell biology of secondary cell wall biosynthesis
What is it that makes a plant get up and stay up? A new review looks at the creation of secondary cell walls. These microscopic features are the key to understanding the architecture of the plants we see around us.
botanyone
Call for Papers: A Special Issue on Developmental Plant Cell Biology, in honour of Peter Barlow
From Root Biology, via Plant Cytoskeleton, Polarity, Gravity, Plant Signalling and Intelligence, Biological Rhythms up to Patterns, and Evolution of Eukaryotic Cells Recently, Peter Barlow (latterly Research Fellow at...
Where did your cells come from?
Where did your complex cells come from? A new model literally turns an old theory inside out.
![Image: Brillouet et al., 2013. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mct168]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/01-Oct-SIZED-align-left.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
Tann-fastic, a new plant organelle(!!)
Jean-Marc Brillouet et al. have identified a new organelle in plant cells: the 'tannosome' is involved in the formation of condensed tannins.
Nigel Chaffey
Homage to a nanotubule…
Frequently, journals will devote a whole issue to a particular theme, maybe even to a single species (even whole journals are seemingly devoted to Arabidopsis thaliana…). But rarely will they be devoted to a...
Focus on transfer cells
A study finds that manipulation of transfer cells may provide new opportunities for improving crop yield.
Waste not, want not…
A little while ago we looked at auxotrophic algae getting a helping hand from bacteria; now we’ll take a look at ‘proper plants’ that get a little help from animals (in a sort of mixotrophy). But it’s not exactly...
Free paper — Cytogenetic characterization and genome size of the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don
The genome size and organization of the important medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus is shown to correspond to 1C = 0.76 pg (~738 Mbps) and 2n=16 chromosomes. The data in this recently published paper provide a sound...
Lulu Stader
The Vacuole: not just an empty hole!
The vacuole is the largest organelle of a plant cell. It accumulates proteins, ions and secondary metabolites while providing turgor for cell growth via water content. It is also a major site for the degradation of...
Charlotte Carroll
Free paper — Dividing without centrioles
Innovative MTOCs organize mitotic spindles in bryophytes, the earliest extant lineages of land. Triple staining of γ-tubulin, microtubules, and nuclei here reveal that three types of MTOCs initiate spindles in...
Plant cell biology in the frame!
Notwithstanding the centuries we’ve spent peering at, poking, prodding and penetrating the inner workings of plant cells with various types of microscopes and decades undertaking investigations at the sub-cellular...
