A mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. which lacks leaf starch was isolated by screening for plants which did not stain with iodine. The starchless phenotype, confirmed by quantitative enzymic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The roots of young plants of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh. grown under simulated tidal conditions were harvested so as to obtain the entire ...

Respiration is a series of reactions, but this summarises the overall process. Human muscle can respire anaerobically for short periods of time - even though the process is relatively inefficient, ...

Physicists from Switzerland, Japan and Germany have unveiled the mechanism by which the first event of respiration takes place in heme proteins. Respiration is a fundamental process of all living ...

Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers have now discovered a new function for a protein in the ...

Metabolism close metabolismAll the chemical reactions in the cells of an organism, including respiration. is the term used for all the chemical reactions that happen inside an organism's body. Starch ...

A team of researchers from Duke University have grown human skeletal muscles in the laboratory -- muscles that actually function and react to stimuli like their real counterparts. In order to do so, ...