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.

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

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin. We ...

Plant cells do not easily abandon their mature identity. In apple, that transformation is especially important because somatic embryogenesis underpins regeneration and genetic improvement.

For most of their lives, plants get their energy from photosynthesis. But during the seed to seedling stage, when they can't ...

In 2011, The Scientist featured Bergmann’s early work on stomata development. She now uses new omics tools to explore the molecular mechanisms that guide plant pore formation.

Plants spend most of their lives using photosynthesis to make energy. However, in the earliest phase after a seed begins to grow, they cannot yet ...