Plants counteract fluctuations in water supply by regulating all aquaporins in the cell plasma membrane. Channel closure results either from the dephosphorylation of two conserved serine residues ...

Membrane Research Opens Window To Benefits For Plants, Humans. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 12 / 051222085140.htm ...

Yet despite close scrutiny, scientists have been unable to determine the exact mechanism by which the bacterial DNA crosses the plant's so-called plasma membrane.

When plants are subjected to Zn deficiency, the transcriptional levels of Zn-absorbing transporters (such as ZIP4, ZIP9, and ZIP12) are significantly upregulated due to the plant's stress response ...

New insights into effects of membrane proteins on plant growth Date: June 3, 2022 Source: Hokkaido University Summary: Scientists have revealed two enzymes that regulate protein degradation of ...

Now, chemical engineers at the University of Bath have made an effective and more sustainable plant-based nanofiltration membrane, which—in a world first—does not use fossil fuel-derived ...

Compared to a wild type Arabidopsis (WT, left), plants that lack either UBP12 and UBP13 (#1-7 and #12-8, centre) or BRI1 (bri1-null, right) have extremely stunted growth.

They are used in cleaning our drinking water, treating sewage, processing foods and keeping pharmaceuticals safe – membranes are a crucial part of everyday life. Now, chemical engineers at the ...