A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

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

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

Study offers insight into chloroplast evolution Ancient organelles likely originated as energy-producers but later switched to carbon-assimilation Date: December 10, 2024 Source: University of ...

Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells.

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Two groundbreaking studies published in the journal Cell shed light on the assembly, function and evolutionary diversity of the chloroplast protein import system.

CAS Reveals Structure of Chloroplast Protein Transport System Chinese Academy of Sciences Chloroplasts of algae and plants are the cellular engines that convert solar energy into chemical energy ...

Sticking a chloroplast into a sea-slug cell and expecting it to run is like asking a car to gun indefinitely down a highway with no gas or oil-change stations.

If scientists could genetically engineer chloroplasts into human skin cells, could it give us the energy needed to live in space long-term?

The chloroplast-capture events also explain why researchers sometimes get inconsistent results when reconstructing the evolutionary histories of plants: Nuclear and chloroplast genomes may have ...