But plant cells lack centrosomes, so the origin and development of plant microtubules had been something of a mystery -– until now.

Their main role is to arrange the microtubules during cell division. Centrioles are found in animal cells but are not ...

With intensifying global warming and climate change, drought has become a major threat to global agriculture, impacting crop ...

They soon observed that some cells weren't dividing according to the "shortest wall rule," which normally governs plant cell division. While plant cells are expected to build the smallest – and ...

Plant cortical microtubule arrays influence plant morphogenesis, but the nature of microtubule genesis and self-organization has long puzzled cell biologists. In this issue, Murata and coworkers ...

Plant microtubules are organized into various arrays that markedly change in appearance, position, and orientation as the cell cycle progresses and as the organism develops.

Along with copying and splitting DNA during division, cells must have a way to break safely into two viable daughter cells, a process called cytokinesis. But the molecular basis of how plant cells ...

Plant and animal stem cells both rely on the cytoskeleton to divide properly, but a new Stanford study finds that they use them in opposite ways – while animal cells pull on the cytoskeleton ...

Migrating cells use stiffened microtubules to push through tissue barriers, seeking out weak points in tissue, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Cell Reports.

These microtubules, which were analyzed in real time by Samy Belteton, a graduate student in Szymanski’s lab, using live cell imaging, pattern the movement of cellulose synthase machines that make ...

This time-lapse video shows the growth and branching of microtubules, dubbed the 'fireworks of life' because these microscopic structures make up the skeleton of the cell.

Cell biologist Thomas Maresca and senior research fellow Vikash Verma at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say they have, for the first time, directly observed and recorded in animal cells a ...