Researchers from the University of Jena and the Leibniz Institutes in Jena have published new findings on the adaptability of ...

Our work is centered on the cell wall and associated extracellular polymers of algae. We are interested in what these algal extracellular matrices can tell us about: 1) the evolution of the land plant ...

This is a magnified image of the structure of the cell wall of a diatom from marine sediment collected ... Biology in the background Diatoms are microscopic single-celled algae that live in fresh ...

Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas ... by definition every multicellular organism possesses multiple cells that remain associated following ...

Algae are among the fastest-growing organisms and some naturally contain oil as about 30% of their cell weight, a mechanism to store energy, research has found. When algae are fed sugar ...

It was once believed that cellulose was the structural material in the cell walls of all green plants. Now it appears that other substances are employed for this purpose in certain marine algae By ...