This discovery was recently published in Plant, Cell and Environment. "We thought it would be really intriguing to look at some ancestral cultivars of soybean and compare them to a modern cultivar.

Researchers have engineered mesophyll conductance, which plays a key role in photosynthesis and refers to the ease with which CO2 can move through a leaf’s cells before ultimately becoming sugar ...

Mesophyll layers act as significant barriers to gas movement, influencing how efficiently plants conduct photosynthesis. Previous models often neglected this process or used simplified assumptions ...

Endo et al. describe a protocol for the isolation of mesophyll, vascular and epidermal tissues from Arabidopsis leaves. The protocol can be applied to tissue-specific transcriptome, methylome and ...

Damage control: plant cells use mechanical cues to regenerate damaged tissues A research group led by Osaka University finds that the release from mechanical pressure triggers plant mesophyll ...

C4 plants recruit bundle sheath cells, which normally serve as leaf vein support, to photosynthesize alongside mesophyll ...

Plants the world over are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new assessment developed by scientists. ... Key to the new estimate is better representation ...

Their aim was to get plants to soak up materials that could later harden into wires through the plants xylem, ... also could uptake the material into a cell layer called the spongy mesophyll.

“This is a big step toward plant-based lighting.” Using specialized nanoparticles embedded in plant leaves, MIT engineers have created a novel light-emitting plant that can be charged by an LED. In ...