Experiments in fruit fly larvae show that epidermal cells can communicate with sensory neurons to drive responses to pain.

Plants are built of tiny cells that are surrounded by stiff cell walls, which are organized into tissue layers. The epidermis, the most external layer, is easy to observe with microscopes and is ...

They noticed that receptors such as the epidermal growth factor receptor ... role in the delivery of cargo to vacuoles. Plant cells rely on vacuoles for multiple cellular functions, such as ...

It was also discovered that the plant hormone cytokinin is crucial ... When rhizobia infect legume roots, root epidermal cells form infection threads, membranous tube-like structures guiding ...

Japan’s Nagoya University researchers have recently identified a completely new plant tissue, something that has eluded observation for 160 years. Interestingly, this novel rabbit-shaped tissue ...

Spongy mesophyll close spongy mesophyllThe plant tissue in a leaf which has loosely packed cells and air spaces between them to allow gas exchange. tissue is packed loosely for efficient gas exchange.

Branches of the phloem, to transport glucose and other products of photosynthesis to other parts of the plant. Air spaces between cells within the leaf. For the diffusion of gases. Feature Large ...