This image shows two different organisms, an alga and a plant, both of them ... leaves that are often only one cell layer thick, making them hard to see with the naked eye but fascinating to look at ...

New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin.

The main characteristic of the newly discovered species is that the whole plant is made up of just one gigantic cell with just one ... of microscopic green algae ‘desmids’ in 1984 ...