DURHAM, N.C. -- It might look like a comet or a shooting star, but this time-lapse video is actually a tiny plant root, not much thicker than a human hair, magnified hundreds of times as it grows ...

Researchers have discovered that two proteins, which are involved in the control of stem cells' division in plant roots, need each other for these cells to function properly. The study combines ...

Interdisciplinary collaboration between physics and molecular biology enabled researchers to solve fundamental questions on plant root growth. These findings provide opportunities to create more ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In order to reveal any roles played by stems and roots of herbaceous plants in responding to the surrounding light environment, the optical ...

Time-lapse footage of a threadlike Arabidopsis root as it grows. Each fluorescent blue dot marks the nucleus of a cell that’s in the process of dividing to produce new cells, which will go on to form ...