Guard cell walls are built to resist bending and deformation to open and close the pore. Pectins provide flexibility and resilience to walls; in particular arabinans and unesterified homo-galacturonans are required for...
Using an immunochemical approach to reveal the link between changes in abscisic acid (ABA) levels, aquaporin function and changes in root cell hydraulic conductivity (LpCell), Sharipova et al. compared the abundance of...
Stomata in the moss Funaria are regularly spaced at the base of the capsule. Merced and Renzaglia describe the patterning and distribution of stomata and how they are coordinated with the formation of substomatal...
Quercus suber is an extremely important forest species in European Western Mediterranean regions, due to its ecological value and economic potential, allowing local sustainable use of natural resources. Although it has...
Techniques are at the heart of understanding in botany (and any science, whether it be an –ology or not *). For, as techniques advance so should our understanding – often to the point of over-turning the ‘truth’ that...
Poorly known, mapaniid sedges (Cyperaceae, subfamily Mapanioideae) possess unique floral forms, markedly different from stereotypical monocots, and the evolutionary issues of how or why this has occurred have not been...
The starchy endosperm of wheat, Triticum aestivum, has three major components: protein, starch and cell wall polysaccharides, which are are not homogenously distributed across the tissue. Using antibodies for specific...
C4 photosynthesis in genus Cleome The genus Cleome (Cleomaceae) includes more than 200 species including one, C. gynandra, that is known to be C4 and two others that are believed to be. Koteyeva et al. show that all...