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Plants produce all amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialised cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) ...

Castor bean seedlings grown in different media (soil, quartz sand, or liquid culture) under natural or axenic conditions take up¹⁴Clabelled proline when offered to the rooting medium at concentrations ...

A new study analyzed pollen from 57 North American plant species, identifying those most nutritionally beneficial for bees, ...

Scientists have uncovered a unique mechanism that regulates the opening of stomata in plants. Phosphorylation of the amino acid Thr881 on the plasma membrane proton pump plays a key role in this ...

Scientists have discovered that one of the myriad signals that human brain cells use to communicate also enables flowering plants to have sex. This versatile substance, an amino acid known as amino ...

A three-year grant funded by Wisconsin Partnership Program, a grantmaking program within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is backing research into how the reduction of ...

WITH the object of correlating existing information and the possibility of establishing a relationship with taxonomy, we have examined, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the free and combined ...

Vegans who meet their daily protein requirements may still fall short on certain essential amino acids, according to new research. The study highlights that protein quality, not just quantity, plays a ...