Most widely used adhesives are toxic and derived from petroleum, but researchers have come up with a safe, recyclable ...

In plant biotech, as is true for other biotech ... the effect of having a virus starting its replication in that cell.” Icon was among the first to successfully use these viral vectors, and ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin.

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

Plant stem cells are innately undifferentiated cells located in the meristems of plant. They serve as the origin of plant vitality, as they maintain themselves while providing a steady supply of ...

Video: Watch a sea slug eat algae to nab some of its chloroplasts, and the genes that keep them functioning It’s the ultimate form of solar power: eat a plant, become photosynthetic.