Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing ...

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and ...

Professor Bo Liu, Department of Plant Biology, holds an Arabidopsis plant while Professor Jawdat Al-Bassam, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, holds a model of the augmin protein complex.

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

A newly discovered protein controls plant cell growth, helping seedlings develop and survive early growth stages.

Living things from plants to humans must constantly adjust the chemical soup of proteins -- the workhorse molecules of life -- inside their cells to adapt to stress or changing conditions. Now, ...