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

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 ...

Mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own genomes, but most of their proteins are encoded in the nucleus. The coordination of separate genomes is achieved by both anterograde mechanisms (nucleus ...

Contributed by Sabeeha S. Merchant, November 10, 2014 (sent for review October 23, 2014; reviewed by Valeria Culotta and Lola Peñarrubia) ...