The cell wall surrounds the plasma membrane and provides the cell tensile strength and protection. Plant cells have some specialized properties that make them distinct from animal cells.

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Like the exterior walls of a house, the plasma membrane is semi-permeable ... not the only one that generates energy in living cells. In plant and other photosynthetic cells, chloroplasts also ...

Individual cellulose chains (dark brown) are synthesized by plasma ... for the cell wall. In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls ...