Plants cannot run from danger, so they must respond to it with astonishing speed, rewiring their internal logistics within ...

Imagine if our bodies could grow new organs throughout our entire lives. Plants do this constantly, thanks to tiny, powerful reservoirs of stem cells. But how do these cells know when to divide, and ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing energy-rich nutrients. And yet the process of how the walls begin ...

In the quiet world of plant molecular biology, few questions are as consequential as how an ordinary leaf cell can be persuaded to abandon its identity and start life over again as an embryo. A new ...

Plant cytokinesis culminates in the formation of a new cell wall between daughter cells, a process distinguished by the assembly and guided expansion of the phragmoplast, a microtubule–actin scaffold ...