A research group led by Dr. Ryushiro Kasahara has discovered a new plant tissue essential for seed formation, which will be ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...

A research team has discovered a new tissue in plants that plays an essential role in seed formation by regulating the flow of nutrients into the seed. The team used their findings to increase the ...

Turns out that even with all the research done over the years, plant seed formation still holds many secrets. Japan’s Nagoya University researchers have recently identified a completely new plant ...

Plant tissue culture has emerged as a vital tool for the controlled production of secondary metabolites – bioactive compounds that are of paramount importance in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and ...

Starting from whole plant tissues and dissociating cells (protoplasts) or nuclei from the tissue, RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis by reverse transcription, library preparation followed by sequencing, ...

Beginning in 1970, in vitro selection for resistance to various toxic compounds has produced many plant cell lines useful for studying biochemical pathways, altering overall cell metabolism and growth ...

Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...

After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the ...

Sterilization of explants while maintaining viability is a major task for those working in plant tissue culture. This task is usually accomplished through the use of mercuric chloride or sodium ...