The xylem of the plant stem performs several important functions. Elucidating the coordination or trade-offs between xylem functions is critical for understanding plant ecological strategy and ...

A new method developed by Penn State biologists allows them to turn stripped-down plant cells into other types of cells, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into different cell types. Using ...

"But the unique structures formed by 'xylem tracheary element' cells often fail to develop properly in these mutant plants, which causes the cells to collapse and ultimately reduces plant growth ...

Specialised plant cells include root hair cells, palisade cells, xylem cells and phloem cells. Just like animals, plants are made of tiny little cells. Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a ...

Wood is an important building material, carbon store, climate proxy and, together with the phloem, enables the efficient transport of water, nutrients andmetabolites along plants’ axes. Secondary ...

SMART researchers have pioneered the first Covalent Organic Framework (COF) sensors integrated within silk fibroin (SF) microneedles capable of detecting pH changes in plant xylem tissues These pH ...

Xylem conduits begin as a series of living ... which are outgrowths produced by living plant cells surrounding a vessel to seal it off after wounding or pathogen invasion (Figure 8).

A recent paper published by researchers at the university of Tel Aviv in Cell on the sounds they captured ... in 1989 on the vulnerability of the plant xylem (water transporting tissue) to ...

On the back of Xylem's (NYSE: XYL) latest quarterly earnings report, investors eagerly traded out of the stock on the second-to-last trading day of the week. This news-fueled decline left the ...