Just like in yeast and animal cells, vacuoles in plants are responsible for breaking down unwanted cellular components. At ...

Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 55, No. 404, Special Issue: Sulphur Metabolism in Plants— Integrating Complexity (August 2004), pp. 1765-1773 (9 pages) Proton/sulphate co-transport in the plasma ...

Researchers have just elucidated structures of a sugar transport protein that drives transport of sugar in plants. The study provides a comprehensive insight into sugar uptake into plant organs such ...

Photographer Mark Smith and botanical artist Felicity Jones have spent the past seven years uncovering stories of botanical ...

Sulfur is a vital macronutrient that plays central roles in plant growth, development and stress resilience. In plants, sulfur is primarily absorbed as sulfate from the soil and is subsequently ...

Stubby roots, brittle branches, poor fertility -- these are some of the symptoms which can occur in the case of boron deficiency in plants. Thanks to transport proteins called Nodulin26-like-intrinsic ...

Plants transport water and nutrients from their environment through specialized pores. Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have shed light on a little-known but essential mechanism for ...

SCIOTO COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - A 916,000-pound transport made its way Wednesday through our region on its way to an Intel chip processing plant in Licking County. The transport passed through Portsmouth ...

Global change and plant water relations -- Cavitation. A review: past, present and future -- Effect of cavitation on the status of water in plants -- Stomatal control of xylem -- Refilling of ...