Roots have always been of importance as a significant contributing factor to plant's productivity. Root apex is supposed to be the brain of a plant, ...

Animals and plants form complex symbiotic communities with microorganisms, the so-called microbiome. A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the Max Planck Institute ...

What is the Rhizosphere and how can understanding rhizosphere processes help feed the world and save the environment? This article will review the critical biogeochemical processes occurring at ...

The glucose comes from food. This is how you make a model plant cell. There are a few things you'll need, a plastic box, a small sealable sandwich bag filled with water, cling film, some peas ...

"We have succeeded in having plant roots absorb a benign nanoparticle which was developed by Professor Gordon Xu's group at UQ for the delivery of vaccines and cancer treatments in animals.

Roots grow from their tips and initially produce ... recent work with the plant model Arabidopsis has shed some light on the mechanism at the molecular level (see Eapen et al.