Plant cells are also able to become longer as they grow. This process is called cell elongation and occurs throughout the plant, not just in the meristems. Cell elongation does not occur in animals.

Plant cell biology is the study of all aspects of plant cells. It is particularly concerned with structure, growth, division, signalling, differentiation and death of plant cells. The study used ...

The chemical energy released by respiration can be used by the plant for cellular activities such as protein synthesis or cell division. The sugar produced by photosynthesis can be converted into ...

Welcome to Mitosis vs. Meiosis. This half of the screen illustrates mitosis—the division of a cell's nucleus. Along with cytokinesis (the division of the rest of a cell), mitosis results in a ...

A 'pocket' on the protein cyclin B is responsible for ensuring that the steps of cell division take place in the correct order.

Kinesins are particularly important in plant cell division where they can restructure the cytoskeleton and shift organelles. In work funded by The Leverhulme Trust, we aim to understand the function ...