Researchers recently investigated the evolution of grasses, one of the most economic and ecologically important plant families, by sequencing the chloroplast DNA of an early diverging grass genus, ...

Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO 2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work properly, they require certain minerals—particularly ions of the metals ...

Researchers have succeeded in the world's first visualization of a peptidoglycan 'wall' present in the chloroplasts of bryophytes (moss plants). Until now, chloroplasts of green plants were considered ...

Inside each plant cell, light-gathering chloroplasts dance out of a cell’s shaded edges to soak up the sun or back into that shade when the light is too intense. Now a team of scientists from five ...

Plants use a single communication route when developing new chloroplasts Researchers in Japan and the U.K. have discovered new details of how young leaves build their first chloroplasts, the energy ...

A proposed model of how StFC-II was manipulated by RxLR effector Pi22922 to suppress host imunitiy. Phytophthora infestans RxLR effector Pi22922 was secreted from haustoria and translocated in the ...

Chloroplasts may seem like docile farmers of light. But inside these microscopic plant and algal cell structures lurks the spirit of a warrior. When a pathogen attacks a plant, chloroplasts stop ...

Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University researchers conducted a genomic analysis of fine aroma cocoa from northern Peru, uncovering genetic divergence and evolutionary patterns within ...