Researchers from Nagoya University Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (WPI-ITbM) in Japan and their colleagues have identified and derivatized a chemical compound that effectively regulates the ...

Though we cannot hear it, plants are constantly emitting and absorbing gases through millions of little mouths on the surface of their leaves and stems. Just by opening and closing, these pores ...

Stomata, the holes on the surface of a plant’s leaves, are essential for controlling the exchange of gases between the plant and the atmosphere. Stomata with the right characteristics can increase a ...

Drug delivery has long been a core field of medical research. Organic and inorganic-based nanoparticles such as liposomes, micelles, and dendrimers have been developed to deliver drugs precisely to ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, who tirelessly feed the entire biosphere (including us), are full of ...

New research on how microscopic leaf pores respond to sunlight reveals some of the first universal relationships between plants and climate. Understanding these relationships could vastly improve ...

For the first time, scientists have captured real-time videos of plants 'breathing' by observing their leaf pores, called stomata, opening and closing. This groundbreaking footage reveals how these ...

How do plants breathe through stomata? Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the tonoplast. Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ...