Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls allow plants to have rigid structures as varied as wood trunks and ...

A plant cell wall is arranged in layers and contains cellulose microfibrils, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin, and soluble protein. These components are organized into three major layers: the primary ...

A carbohydrate that is the primary structural component of plant cell walls, cellulose is widely ... "This provided little to no background cellulose to confound our visualization and tracking ...