Jill Taylor, a puffin researcher based in Nova Scotia, Canada, spends many of her days snorkeling in the North Atlantic Ocean ...

The CGView Comparison Tool (CCT) is a package for visually comparing bacterial, plasmid, chloroplast, and mitochondrial sequences. The comparisons are conducted using BLAST, and the BLAST results are ...

Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work properly, they require certain minerals—particularly ions of the metals ...

LMU biologists decipher the ionome of chloroplasts and create the foundations for new biotech strategies.

The signal recognition particle (SRP) has evolved in chloroplasts to include new components, new ways of recognizing targeting substrates and new capabilities that prevent aggregation of ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants, algae, and some bacteria convert light energy into chemical energy. It mainly occurs in the chloroplasts of plant cells. During photosynthesis, ...

Department of Plant and Molecular Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3102 (H.S.H., N.T.), and Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology ...