Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University researchers conducted a genomic analysis of fine aroma cocoa from northern ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that sustains life on Earth by ...

Plants are constantly under siege by pathogens, and their survival depends on precise internal defense strategies. A new ...

Photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis to investigate the role of bioenergetics in chloroplast function and evolution. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54051-1; ...

Hidden moss chloroplast 'wall' discovered Date: July 13, 2016 Source: Kumamoto University Summary: Researchers have succeeded in the world's first visualization of a peptidoglycan 'wall' present ...

Building the chloroplasts requires a relay of communication signals between the developing chloroplast and the plant cell’s central DNA center, the nucleus. The protein that the researchers ...

Study offers insight into chloroplast evolution Ancient organelles likely originated as energy-producers but later switched to carbon-assimilation Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

When looking for possible genes that could support chloroplast survival and photosynthesis, James Manharte and other researchers noticed that a key algal gene, psbO, was in the sea slug’s DNA. psbO is ...

There, the chloroplast army clasped the microbe’s invading fingerlike appendages, called haustoria, and released toxic photosynthesis by-products.

Artificial chloroplast project sees lift off. 15 May 2020. Written by Francesca Lake (Editor-in-Chief) Bioengineering and biophysics News Plant and climate science. Bioengineered artificial ...