Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants process external signals. When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many ...

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell ...

Researchers developed a tool to precisely control plant growth hormones, revealing a surprising link between these hormones and the plant’s internal clock.

Myo-inositol transporters affect colonization via cross-kingdom signaling. By exporting myo-inositol, plant cells trigger bacteria to swim toward the plant. Microorganisms that live on or in plant ...

Plant structural biology sits at the leading edge of research on how plants adapt to abiotic and biotic stresses, illuminating the dynamic molecular ...

Heterotrimeric G proteins, comprising Gα, Gβ and Gγ subunits, are central to the transduction of extracellular signals into precise intracellular responses in plants. These proteins not only regulate ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...

Every living plant cell and animal cell is surrounded by a membrane that helps it communicate with other cells and the outside world. These cellular membranes contain receptor molecules that serve as ...

A paper describes how the moving parts of a particular plant protein control whether plants can grow and make energy-intensive products such as oil -- or instead put in place a series of steps to ...

Researchers at Purdue University and UC Davis have found that petunias cannot properly form reproductive structures without chemical signals delivered between different parts of the plant. The work ...