cell walls
Retracing the Roots of Fungal Symbioses
With apologies to the poet John Donne, and based on recent work from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science…
New hope for fighting major fungal disease in durum wheat
A variety of wheat that is resistant to a destructive fungal disease has been found to have specialized and protective cell walls, according to research…
The nutritionists within
The vitamin supply provided by the symbionts directly influences the gene regulation of their host: If the bacterial associates are absent, the bugs show a…
Plants have little wiggle room to survive drought, UCLA life scientists report
The research will improve predictions of which plant species will survive the increasingly intense droughts associated with global climate change.
The secret math of plants: UCLA biologists uncover rules that govern leaf design
The UCLA team discovered the mathematical relationships using “allometric analysis,” which looks at how the proportions of parts of an organism change with…
Iowa State, Ames Lab chemists help find binding site of protein that allows plant growth
Researchers say the discovery could one day lead to bigger harvests of biomass for renewable energy.Finding that binding target has been a major challenge for…