Knowing what your neighbour is doing Plant cells are connected to each other via their cell wall. While growing, it is therefore useful that they know what their neighbouring cells are doing. Now researchers show in Nature Plants how plants perceive changes of their neighbours: though holding on to them. When plant cells don’t reactContinue reading “Knowing what your neighbour is doing”
Category Archives: Development
Controlled orientation
Controlled orientation Sometimes, when you are studying something in more detail, it turns out to be working a little different than you first imagined it. This is shown by American researchers in Nature for the orientation of cell divisions of root cells. The final form of an organism is the result of a whole bunchContinue reading “Controlled orientation”
Helping hand
Helping hand Plants do better when they get help from in the soil living microbes. New research from Dutch, Belgian and Swiss researchers shows that this effect is increased when these individual microbes also help each other. The soil is full of microbes, fungi and bacteria. Lost of these microbes have a positive effect onContinue reading “Helping hand”
Layer against drought
An extra layer against drought The suberin is a fatty layer between the cell membrane and the cell wall. In roots plants develop this layer either in the outermost or second outermost cell layer. American researchers now show in Nature Plants that in tomato plants this layer helps the plants to deal with drought. TheContinue reading “Layer against drought”
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