UC Riverside researchers have identified a mechanism that allows plants to rapidly slow growth in response to extreme ...
Linker that joins up Rubisco cuts synthesis of toxic byproduct that plants pay a heavy energy price to deal with ...
The very cells that created us may have a role in saving our lives. Scientists have always been amazed by the energy production system in a sperm’s tail. The system drives flagellar movement and is ...
Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often ...
Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...
Plants constantly adjust their metabolism to cope with changing environmental conditions. A key pathway involved in this process is the phenylpropanoid pathway which produces important compounds such ...
Humanity continuously emits greenhouse gases and thereby worsens global warming. Increasing research efforts go into developing strategies to convert these gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), into ...
Nicotiana benthamiana plants in a lab at UC Davis. Plants form new branches when a hormone called strigolactone breaks down. UC Davis plant biologists have now defined the enzymes that break down ...