Sentences with phrase «of plant cells»

Don't throw the pulp, mix it with the juice because it's rich in fibers — component of plant cells very important for weight loss.

Their excellent nutritional properties are a sign of great future potential of plant cell cultures in creating new types of superfoods.

Their study is only the third report of plant cell fusion being observed and the first observation since the initial reports in the late 1800s.

Just pop in a pod of plant cells along with growth media, and wait for them to turn into jam - like food.

Don't throw the pulp, mix it with the juice because it's high in fibers — component of plant cells very important for weight loss.

How does a set of plant cells grow from a bump into a flat leaf that can efficiently capture sunlight?

Conventional paper is made from cellulose, a crystalline polymer of glucose that's the primary component of plant cell walls.

If you can't access the full text of our most current issue of The Plant Cell or Plant Physiology, there are several possible explanations:

David served on the editorial board of The Plant Cell for more than 12 years, and he was active in recruiting new members to the board, on which he continues to serves as a Consulting Editor.

Growing plant cells in a bioreactor is not a new idea as such, but only the latest technologies have enabled the development of a plant cell incubator for home use that yields a harvest within a week.

Now that they found out what is going on at the surface of plant cells before organ shedding, Michael Hothorn and his team want to discover what happens inside the cell.»

The soluble fiber in produce like winter squash is made up of compounds found on the inside of plant cells, including pectins, mucilages and gums.

It contains what he calls a «toolbox» of more than 70 enzymes, each of which works on a different part of the plant cell wall.

This problem can be traced to the molecular makeup of the plant cell wall, where lignin and hemicellulose bond to form a tangled mesh around cellulose.

Some of the proteins in the chloroplast are made from hereditary genes in the chloroplast itself, while other proteins (such as Sco2) are made from the DNA in the nucleus of the plant cell and then imported into the chloroplast.

It is key for positioning the formation of individual microtubules in plant cells and also important for the organization and function of plant cell skeletons overall, beyond just the division process.

The work from Ehrhardt's team — which includes Carnegie's Ankit Walia (the lead author), Masayoshi Nakamura, and Dorianne Moss — focuses on microtubule involvement in the growth of plant cells after cell division and discovers a new role for a protein previously known to be crucial for cell division in mammals.

«Through the collaboration with chemists and biologists, we were fortunate to discover a new compound that can selectively inhibit the cell division of plant cells regardless of the cell phase,» says Ueda and Nambo.

«But since farmers have always desired fast - growing varieties, their most valued strains did not always originate from drought - tolerant progenitors,» explained Cutler, an associate professor of plant cell biology.

The automated confocal micro-extensometer (ACME)-- developed by a team of researchers in Europe and the US — allows scientists to measure spatial variation in the mechanical properties of plant cells with unprecedented accuracy.

Two new gene clusters involved in the degradation of plant cell wall from the fecal microbiota of Tunisian dromedary

The group, led by principal investigator and Ames Laboratory scientist Emily Smith, is receiving $ 1 million a year for three years from the DOE's Office of Science to develop a subdiffraction Raman imaging platform that will provide an unprecedented look at the specific chemical structures of plant cell walls and then determine how best to deconstruct plant material as a source of biofuels.

YES — ROBERT B. HORSCH, vice president of international development partnerships at Monsanto Company, received the 1998 National Medal of Technology for his pioneering experiments in the genetic modification of plant cells.

In the chloroplasts of plant cells the energy of sunlight is transformed into cells these fuels chemical fuels.

Due to the composition of plant cell walls, plant material is not efficiently broken down or deconstructed to the basic sugars that are converted to biofuels.

Viruses alter the metabolism of plant cells, causing the plants to grow abnormally.

Diana Plant Sciences will explore the use of plant cell technology to produce sustainable food ingredients.

This was fun and educational because my daughter had to look at each feature of a plant cell and pick and choose what items would work best and actually look like they do in real life.

Some 71 percent of the plant cells and 84 percent of the fungal cells showed signs of life afterward, and about half the cells were able to restart normal photosynthesis after rehydration.

The same goes for the genetic material found in chloroplasts: the energy centers of all plant cells.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

They found the grass (when hit by drought stress) accumulate trehalose (a non-reducing sugar found in plants) which it then used to trigger autophagy — a process which allows the orderly degradation and recycling of plant cells.

«Consider the Neocallimastigomycetes — these fungi are one of the most powerful degraders of plant biomass currently known and have a tremendous arsenal of plant cell wall degrading enzymes which may be useful for bioenergy production.

Thus, the selectivity and reversibility of this new triarylmethane compound on the cell division of plant cells makes it a good candidate for an agrochemical.

Fragments of the plant cell wall have been discovered that serve as regulatory molecules.

First author Vincenzo Lionetti from Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, said: «Understanding the dynamics of plant cell wall composition and structure during infection is important to reveal strategies that plant and pathogen exploit to prevail during their interaction.»

Only two other examples of plant cell fusion have been observed so far, and over 110 years have passed since the identification of the two cell fusions, which occurred between two sets of gametes during fertilization.

This model is the first to include wall fibers and also reflected the tremendous internal pressure of a plant cell — 90 pounds per square inch, about the same pressure as a road - bike tire.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

When colonising a plant, the beneficial fungus blooms within individual plant cells, growing thin tendrils called hyphae that extend into surrounding soil and pump minerals and nutrients straight into the heart of plant cells.

Reuter is culturing a range of plant cells, including those taken from herbs, strawberries and the Arctic bramble.

«The most difficult part of this research was to be able to identify the suitable markers to visualize the contents of the plant cell,» explains Ueda.

Particular cytidines in transcripts in chloroplasts and mitochondria of plant cells undergo modification to uridine by RNA editing (1).

The starting material, the polysaccharides and lignin of the plant cell wall, are complex.

2006 — Ken Keegstra — for his pioneering contributions to our understanding of chloroplast biogenesis, protein import into chloroplasts, and the structure and biosynthesis of the plant cell wall