Water-filled vacuoles provide the inner pressure plant cells need for structural support. However, damage to the plant’s cell ...

A plant cell wall is arranged in layers and contains cellulose microfibrils, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin, and soluble protein. These components are organized into three major layers: the primary ...

Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls allow plants to have rigid structures as varied as wood trunks and ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Based on the number of game boards found in the 43-square-foot cell, researchers estimate there could have been 10 or more people held together. “The nautical graffiti were identified using the ...

A new mini-review published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts examines how environmental factors, particularly ...

These messages, carved into cell walls, are one of the few tangible remnants of the lives lost or forever scarred within. They humanize the victims and preserve fragments of a history often ...

Made up of tiny threads known as cellulose microfibrils, plant cell walls are important for regulating a plant's growth and protecting them from pests and pathogens. Previously, only one route for ...

Cell structure Description Function Cell type Cell wall Freely permeable layer surrounding cell membrane. The cell wall of plant cells is made from cellulose. This gives them a rigid structure.

A research group led by Graduate School of Engineering Professor Masayuki Azuma and Associate Professor Yoshihiro Ojima previously showed that three yeast cell wall proteins (Gas1, Gas3 ...