The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...

The secrets of photosynthesis have been discovered at the atomic level, shedding important new light on this plant super-power that greened the Earth more than a billion years ago. John Innes Centre ...

SAN ANTONIO — Students at Edison High School added a salt solution to their microscope slides and watched in awe Wednesday as tiny dots of chloroplasts in plant cells moved away from the outer walls.

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 ...

The chloroplast protein import motor plays a pivotal role in biogenesis and homeostasis by driving the translocation of preproteins into chloroplasts. Two groundbreaking studies published in the ...

Under cold conditions, not only the mother plant but also the father plant can pass on its chloroplasts to the offspring. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in ...

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 ...

The impacts of the prokaryotic ancestry of chloroplasts extend to the occurrence of a bacterial ‘alarm’ hormone, or alarmone, in plants, which is triggered by nutrient deficiency or stress. A new ...