New research from an international team of plant biologists, led by researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems ...

In the absence of DDM1 and RNAi, this TE doesn’t produce small RNAs, so the centromere is not methylated. These mutants also had few epigenetic tags on their histones, which contribute to the ...

Chundawat is a bioengineer and expert on protein engineering and glycosciences, the study of complex carbohydrates such as cellulose. To make the cells fluorescent and detectable by the microscope, he ...

Do similar mechanisms operate in plant and animal stem cells to maintain long-term division and pluripotency? In conclusion, at least some of the genes that control the stem cell state in animals ...

Kinesins are particularly important in plant cell division where they can restructure the cytoskeleton and shift organelles. In work funded by The Leverhulme Trust, we aim to understand the function ...

Plant hormones play a major role in plant ... many of which play a role in cell expansion and division. A major challenge now is to understand how these different signaling pathways are integrated ...

Mitosis describes the process by which the nucleus of a cell divides to create two new nuclei, each containing an identical copy of DNA. (Cytokinesis describes the division of the rest of the cell.) ...

Tissue culture is a technique used to grow whole new plants from small sections of a parent plant. Hormones are used to stimulate cell division and elongation. When pollen has fertilized the egg ...

The chemical energy released by respiration can be used by the plant for cellular activities such as protein synthesis or cell division. The sugar produced by photosynthesis can be converted into ...