“In general, all parts of fruits are healthy. We eat the skins of apples, pears, etc., and we could eat the skins of bananas ...

After the baking is done and you cut into that fresh, steamy loaf of banana bread, you may notice tiny black squiggles throughout.

Figure 1: Passive phloem loading in plants and in the synthetic tree-on-a-chip. Using our synthetic passive loader, we study in this paper the full dynamics of passive phloem loading, set by the ...

Phloem diseases, including the economically devastating citrus greening, are particularly difficult to study because phloem cells -- essential for plant nutrient transport -- are difficult to ...

Researchers monitored the progression of phloem production over time in field-grown HLB-affected citrus trees to determine how the trees are capable of sustaining new growth. Results showed that ...

Phloem bundles are edible, even if they aren't tasty, which reminds us of the debate over the peel — it, too, is technically edible, though few, if any, people in the world eat the peels, banana ...

Tomato development relies on intricate gene regulation, with one of the key genes, SlHAM4, emerging as a critical factor in ...

These phloem-feeding insects and pathogens cause tremendous economic losses worldwide and represent some of the most difficult pests to understand due to their specialized feeding strategies.

In order to fight the devastation of phloem diseases, researchers must understand in detail the way these pathogens deform the plant phloem cells known as sieve elements and companion cells.