and the secondary cell wall (not pictured). The cell wall surrounds the plasma membrane and provides the cell tensile strength and protection. Plant cells have some specialized properties that ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

And finally, top it up with the water. And then you'll have a model plant cell with all of its parts. A cell wall, which keeps everything together, cell membrane, which surrounds the cytoplasm ...

Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a nucleus, a cell membrane and cytoplasm. They've also got a vacuole, chloroplasts and a cell wall, which are only found in plant cells and they can be a ...

Bordered pits are cavities in the thick secondary cell walls of both vessels and tracheids ... Thus, pit membranes function as safety valves in the plant water transport system.

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

In a discovery with potential practical applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers and plant biologists ...