This study is led by Dr. Yin-Zheng Wang (Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences). The research group first found that the stigma of Chirita pumila has movement, and proved that the ...

IT is well known that in numerous Protozoa, the contractile vacuole is associated with an osmiophile cortex, which is believed to be homologous with the Golgi apparatus of metazoan cells. In ...

The occurrence of active water transport (net transport against a free energy gradient) in photosynthetic organisms has been debated for several decades. Here, active water transport is considered in ...