In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Biologists have discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to ...

Cells, like humans, cannot generate energy without locating a source in their ... because photosynthetic prokaryotes, algae, and plant cells harness solar energy and use it to make the complex ...