Liverwort uses hair-like rhizoids to collect phosphorus from its surroundings and deliver it to where it is needed. This Kobe ...

image: Scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich have published new evidence that plant tissues can have a preferred direction of growth and that this characteristic is essential for producing ...

Figure 1: Representative examples of chemicals produced by glandular tissues in plants. Despite their importance, little is known about the physiology and metabolism of glandular tissues. The major ...

Effective hydrophobic barriers were essential for plants to survive on land, yet how these barriers became specialized across different tissues has remained unclear. This study reveals that two ...

The vascular tissue of higher plants consists of specialized cells that differ from all other cells with respect to their shape and size, their organellar composition, their extracellular matrix, the ...

Plant tissue culture involves cultivating plant cells, tissues, and organs in a nutrient-rich medium using controlled, aseptic techniques. 1 Since its inception in the early 20th century, plant tissue ...