Discovery of the structure by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University may help researchers learn more about a hereditary neuromuscular disease known as nemaline myopathy.

Seven fully excavated 16 year-old root systems of Sitka spruce were analysed. All roots in excess of 1 cm diameter at their origin on the stumps were analysed, data being collected until root diameter ...

Ma and Wang were then most interested in the structure of Lmod2, a protein that nucleates actin and then mediates the formation of actin filaments within muscle cells. Bundles of filaments form ...

The seven or eight protoxylem points at the stem end of a fleshy adventitious root of Cycas revoluta merge successively in pairs; at its tip the root, if sufficiently extended, possesses a diarch ...

Original Article Published: 17 December 2003 Fine-scale genetic structure of grape phylloxera from the roots and leaves of Vitis A M Corrie & A A Hoffmann Heredity 92, 118–127 (2004) Cite this ...

Plants using C4 photosynthesis grow 20-100 percent quicker than more common C3 plants by altering the shape, size and structure of their leaves and roots, according to a new study.