Every year, wind and other abiotic forces cause herbaceous crop stems to buckle and snap, a phenomenon known as lodging that ...

A complete, ready-to-teach GCSE Biology lesson focused on using light microscopes to observe cells, with links to the GCSE Required Practical on using a light microscope to observe and draw plant and ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays. Living on light is a dangerous ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...