A Dutch crop technology company has developed a breakthrough method to create stable graft chimeras—plants that combine the ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey ... can dramatically disrupt chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who is also a member of the Purdue Center for ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes ... Like mitochondria, chloroplasts are surrounded by two membranes. The outer membrane is permeable to small organic molecules ...

Cell membrane - a flexible outer layer that surrounds the ... and I work for a fruit and vegetable business. Plant cells have a rigid cell structure. They are made up of a cell wall, cell membrane ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the innards of another ...

Unlike ferns, which release spores into the environment, seed plants hold their female reproductive structures -- ovules ... four-lobed outer coverings that slowed down wind currents by about ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane ... chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who is also a member of the Purdue Center for Plant Biology.