A kind of built-in GPS informs each cell about its relative position in the growing leaf. The order corresponds to a ...

The waxy cuticle surface on the outside protects the leaf and prevents excess water loss. The palisade cells at the upper side are packed with chloroplasts to maximise photosynthesis. On the lower ...

Scientists have developed an artificial leaf that uses sunlight to convert CO₂ into hydrocarbons, offering a sustainable ...

Confocal overview of a TaEPF1 OE wheat leaf showing epidermal layer (purple), subtending mesophyll cells (green), a stomate (St) consisting of guard cells and associated subsidiary cells and ...

The researchers used solar cells connected to electrodes immersed ... In 2015, however, continued improvements led to the ‘artificial leaf’, a one square centimetre electrode device that ...

A spinach leaf proves to be an edible scaffold for lab-grown meat ... provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance ...