The function of these proteins inside plant cells has remained a mystery for years.
When conditions are unfavourable for growth and multiplication, bacteria remain dormant on or inside plant tissue.
Female damselflies normally use a bladelike ovipositor to place eggs inside plant tissue.
A proper virus is a tiny organism, smaller than a bacteria, which lives and reproduces inside plant cells.
Inside Plant 2, on a sweltering summer day, a dozen workers sat at a row of tall workbenches, fashioning fuel pumps.
The net photosynthetic rate of the plant canopy increased with increasing air velocities inside plant canopies and saturated at 0.2 m s−1.
I really wanted some real research experience, so I volunteered in Taryn Baurle's lab in the Department of Horticulture studying endophytes – fungal symbionts that live inside plant cells.
Anything that forms a gall or feeds inside plant stems and those that have scale or waxy filament coverings are essentially wearing pesticide raincoats.
They tunnel inside plant tissues (endoparasites) or feed externally from the surface (ectoparasites) and may enter a plant through wounds or natural openings or by penetrating roots.
The fungi are known as endophytes from the Greek endo, or in, and phyto, or plant, because the fungi are found inside plant tissue where, scientists believe, they live off nutrients leaking from plants' cells.
Several human pathogenic organisms have been recognized to exist on plant root or leaf surfaces (Lyytikainen et al., 2004; Brandl, 2006), and even inside plant roots (Kutter et al., 2006; Rosenblueth and Martínez-Romero, 2006).
