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Cells, Genes & Molecules

A key protein may help trigger germination in Arabidopsis seeds

Cells, Genes & Molecules

Rice chloroplasts become more spherical under salt stress

Though the cause isn’t clear, the chloroplasts may be reacting to carbon dioxide or light levels.

AoB PLANTS News in Brief

Recent range expansion in Australian hummock grasses

Wild cucumber leaves under thermal imaging

Annals of Botany

Fusarium wilt of cucumber plants is not caused by water shortage

Although leaf wilt occurred in both water stress and FOC infection, the physiological responses were different, especially in leaf spatial distribution.

Three-dimensional (3-D) models of a rice mesophyll cell.

Annals of Botany

The intricate intracellular structure of a rice mesophyll cell

Epidermis cells of Rhoeo Discolor (Tradescantia) after plasmolysis.

Plant Cuttings

Where do Chloroplasts go to die?

Even plants find it healthy to eat their greens.

Plastids are responsible for photosynthesis, storage of products like starch and for the synthesis of many classes of molecules such as fatty acids and terpenes which are needed as cellular building blocks and/or for the function of the plant.

Plant Cuttings

Iridoplasts, out of the shadows at last

Why can you find colourful plants, where they’re hardest to see? Iridoplasts, an overlooked plastid, improve photosynthesis and look great while doing it.