Remarkably, in many plant species, exit from the mitotic cell cycle is often accompanied by a residual cell-cycle competence, by which cells continue to replicate their DNA, a process known as ...

2. Describe the components of plant cells and their functions. Most animal cells possess a nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria. The nucleus contains the genetic material (DNA ...

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 centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers has investigated how two crucial proteins -- KNL2 ...

A cell protein previously believed only to provide a scaffolding for DNA has also been shown to directly ... The finding, published Dec. 20 in Plant Cell, was co-authored by Cornell researchers ...

20 in Plant Cell, was co-authored by Cornell researchers ... organization and folding of DNA, but this paper is the first to demonstrate that a linker histone is also directly regulating gene ...