A new study uses computational modelling to determine how and why cotton quality develops.
Tag - cytoskeleton
Rachel Shekar
Bamboosting growth: why does bamboo grow so fast?
What is it that gives bamboo its rapid growth? One team has been looking for the answer not with the fastest plants, but with the slower variants to see what they lack.
Joseph Stinziano
Too much tubulin flips cell wall flexibility
Joseph Stinziano investigates how something you might find in jam controls how easily trees open or close access their leaves.
Plants flex their muscles… [or, Onion feeling the pinch…?]
Could onions peel back the layers of future developments in artificial muscle construction and soft robotics?
Nigel Chaffey
Grow with the flow…
Results strongly suggest that cytoplasmic streaming is a key determinant of plant size.
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...
