When plants are infected by pathogens, suffer from a lack of water or have to react to other external stimuli, the first thing they do is increase the proton and calcium concentration in the affected ...

Protons, the positively charged particles that help build every atom in our bodies, are starting to look less like classical ...

After a multi-institution team's work computing the calcium-48 nucleus, researchers moved on to a larger, heavier, and more complex isotope -- calcium-52 -- and the results surprised them once again.

Using optogenetics, researchers have detected a new acid sensor in plant cells that is addressing a cell-internal calcium store. When plants are infected by pathogens, suffer from a lack of water or ...