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Breakthrough in research into mechanical forces in plant cells
| Breakthrough in research into mechanical forces in plant cells - WUR News Breakthrough in research into mechanical forces in plant cells Published on... -
Plant biologists discover simple principle of plant responses to hormone
| In a new study researchers from Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and colleagues in Japan and Spain have found a simple... -
Plants too have a sense of direction
| It is long known that animals have a built-in compass. But for plants too it is important to know what is up, down, inner and outer. Without this... -
Genome archaeologists uncover the origin of a plant hormone
| In their quest for the origin of the universal auxin hormone in plants, Wageningen-based biochemists and bioinformaticists took on the mantle of... -
How come the plant hormone auxin functions one way in one location, and a different way elsewhere?
| Auxin is a simple yet powerful hormone which, depending on where it accumulates, controls a large number of growth mechanisms in plants. Dolf Weijers,... -
Integration of growth and patterning during vascular tissue formation in Arabidopsis
| De Rybel, B., Adibi, M., Breda, A.S., Wendrich, J.R., Smit, M.E., Novák, O., Yamaguchi, N., Yoshida, S., Van Isterdael, G., Palovaara, J.,... -
How plants grow and develop
| How does a complete plant with stems, leafs and flowers develop from a tiny clump of seemingly identical cells? For a very long time, the mechanism of... -
Understanding how a shapeless lump of cells becomes a plant
| A fertilised plant cell divides into two, four, eight, sixteen and more identical cells. Biochemists from Wageningen have now discovered that there... -
Hormone causes dividing plant cell to rebel
| Cell division in plants is governed by a physical law. A law that was postulated in the 19th century and tested in a two-dimensional plane many times... -
Molecular compass determines hormone reaction in plants
| The plant hormone auxin seems to work wonders for plant growth. The development of roots and the vascular system, the growth of plants towards light;...