The team identified a conserved quality control mechanism by which cell wall damage triggers the conjugation of the molecule ...

Plant cells have some specialized properties that make them distinct from animal cells. Learn how special structures, such as chloroplasts and cell walls, create this distinction.

It begins with observing onion cells, highlighting their components such as the cell wall, nucleus, and vacuoles. Staining techniques reveal the protoplasm, which is essential for life.

Hyperspectral imaging has provided an insight into how cells organize and prioritize organelle growth.

They've also got a vacuole, chloroplasts and a cell wall, which are only found in plant cells and they can be a bit bigger than animal cells. Plants also have some very specialised cells.

Plant cells are characterized by the presence of cell walls, chloroplasts, and large central vacuoles, which are essential for photosynthesis and providing structural support to the plant.

Henrik Scheller (left) and Dominque Loque, Joint BioEnergy Institute, shown here with Arabidopsis plants, are engineering plant cell walls to make the sugars within more accessible. Credit: Roy ...

Damage to the cell wall can lead to vacuole rupture and cell death. A conserved mechanism involving ATG8ylation, where ATG8 is relocated to the vacuole membrane, helps protect against this.