Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Auxin is the first plant hormone—or "phytohormone"—ever identified, with its discovery dating to the late 19th and early 20th ...

Scientists have discovered, for the first time, how root cells respond to their complex soil environment, revealing that roots actively "sense" their microenvironment and mount precise ...

It is particularly concerned with structure, growth, division, signalling, differentiation and death of plant cells. Livanos et ... in cellular responses to chloroplast precursor protein ...