There are many different types of cells in plants. Each type is specialised to do a particular role and ensures that the organism functions as a whole. The root hair cell has a large surface area ...

Two fundamentally different types of cell division occur during plant growth and development. One type exclusively generates new cells with the same cell fate and is designated 'proliferative ...

Stem cells function as a source of new cells to grow or replace specialised tissues. To perform this function, these cells must divide to renew themselves, while some of their descendants ...

"But plants don't have mobile, specialized immune cells like we do -- they must come up with an entirely different system where every cell can respond to immune attacks without sacrificing their ...