A kind of built-in GPS informs each cell about its relative position in the growing leaf. The order corresponds to a ...

The waxy cuticle surface on the outside protects the leaf and prevents excess water loss. The palisade cells at the upper side are packed with chloroplasts to maximise photosynthesis. On the lower ...

This food-making process takes place in the leaf in numerous cells containing chlorophyll, which gives the leaf its green color. This extraordinary chemical absorbs from sunlight the energy that is ...

The upper part of the leaf is where the light falls, and it contains a type of cell called a palisade cell. This is adapted to absorb a lot of light. It has lots of chloroplasts and is shaped like ...

Stem cells function as a source of new cells to grow or replace specialised tissues. To perform this function, these cells must divide to renew themselves, while some of their descendants ...

The researchers used solar cells connected to electrodes immersed ... In 2015, however, continued improvements led to the ‘artificial leaf’, a one square centimetre electrode device that ...

Confocal overview of a TaEPF1 OE wheat leaf showing epidermal layer (purple), subtending mesophyll cells (green), a stomate (St) consisting of guard cells and associated subsidiary cells and ...

A spinach leaf proves to be an edible scaffold for lab-grown meat, new research by Professor of Engineering Glenn Gaudette shows Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, ...

Winter is a difficult time for all living beings, but plants have it especially hard. Plants get their energy to live and ...

A research team at Aalto University in Finland has developed a perovskite solar cell based on a “light management layer” made of a polymer material with the surface of leek leaves that can ...