Jennie Mazzone, Penn State Extension Franklin County Master Gardener Coordinator, and Penn State Mont Alto Forestry ...

A major plant function of plant available forms of silicon are stronger plants cells. It gives cells rigidity so plants ... This nutrient causes the vascular system (the phloem and the xylem) to have ...

development and photoassimilate export associated with massive callose deposition in transfer cells of the phloem. To further understand the roles of tocopherols in LT induced TCW development we ...

Vascular bundles in the grape pedicel and berry contain the conduits, phloem and xylem, for transport of water ... Embedded within several soft layers of mesocarp cells, it is difficult to section and ...

The bacterium chlamydia trachomatis is a major cause of sexually transmitted diseases. Bacteria have lots of tricks up their ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

Stomata, microscopic pores on plant leaves, regulate gas exchange and water loss by opening or closing in response to ...

Etna eruption. Europe’s most active volcano, Mount Etna, erupted in mid-February, releasing fiery rivers of lava and sending ...

Water-filled vacuoles provide the inner pressure plant cells need for structural support. However, damage to the plant’s cell wall risks vacuole rupture and cell death. The Dagdas group at the Gregor ...

Smith, PhD, and Kirk Czymmek, PhD, in collaboration with researchers at the CryoEM Facility at Stanford University, are ...

Dead cells are joined end to end to form a continuous tube. They have no cytoplasm. Their walls contain lignin for strengthening. Phloem cell They transport sugars, amino acids, other substances ...

Immune cells might be reprogrammed to use the body’s fructose — a naturally occurring sugar — as an energy source that supercharges them to fight cancer, researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer ...