We want to create a record of how the atmosphere has changed through time by calculating the percentages of two different types of leaf cell (stomatal and epidermal) for many leaves, from the present ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...

Salk scientists have created a new atlas of plant cells during immune response, in turn discovering a new rare cell state, ...

The waxy cuticle surface on the outside protects the leaf and prevents excess water loss. The palisade cells at the upper side are packed with chloroplasts to maximise photosynthesis. On the lower ...

This food-making process takes place in the leaf in numerous cells containing chlorophyll, which gives the leaf its green color. This extraordinary chemical absorbs from sunlight the energy that is ...

A spinach leaf proves to be an edible scaffold for lab-grown meat ... provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance ...

This glucose is: After a few minutes, the parts of the leaf that contain starch turn the iodine from brown to blue/black. Variegated leaves have green parts (where the cells contain chlorophyll ...

Thank you all so much for your continued interest in Fossil Atmospheres and please consider visiting our Zooniverse site to help with leaf cell analysis. Ginkgo trees evolved before the dinosaurs, ...