Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have discovered a unique biphasic cellular response triggered by tetrandrine, a naturally occurring alkaloid containing nitrogen. The research is published in ...

When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many other living organisms: they cannot simply change their location if predators or pathogens attack them or the environmental ...

When a pathogen is detected, the CNLs and RNLs respond by forming multiprotein complexes known as resistosomes, which act as ...

Surprise plant cell discovery unlocks human anti-aging potential By Bronwyn Thompson. January 17, 2024 ... and its potential association with aging and the impact of stress.

A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases / new research reported in “Nature Aging&rdquo ...

Mysterious family of microbial proteins hijack crops' cellular plumbing Researchers may have come up with a way to disarm them, preventing $220 billion in annual crop damage ...

Photosynthesis relies on a supply of carbon dioxide (CO 2) to the chloroplasts within leaf cells, where it is fixed into sugars by the enzyme Rubisco.To get to the chloroplast, CO 2 must diffuse ...

We found that in order to improve overall mesophyll conductance by 20%, the amount of CO 2 that would need to cross the plant cell membrane would need to double.” ...

The plant cell membrane can also take on liquid-like characteristics as well, causing the toxic protein and plant cell membrane to merge. Thus, XopR proteins can infiltrate the cytoskeleton of the ...

Lipidomic analysis of membrane lipid remodeling. A, scheme showing lipid remodeling Lands’ cycle for 16:0/18:1 PC and the structure of erucic acid. B, TLC of lipid extracts from PS1 WT cells ...