The findings not only deepen our understanding of chloroplast endosymbiosis—the process by which ancient bacteria became ...

More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

In the study, "Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes of Theobroma cacao from northern Peru," published in PLOS ONE, researchers conducted a chloroplast genome analysis to investigate genetic ...

Eukaryotic cells are more complex than prokaryotic ones because of specialized organelles. Learn how ancient collaborations between cells gave eukaryotes an important energy boost. Plant Cells ...

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Plants also have some very specialised cells. Root hair cells don't have light absorbing chloroplast because they don't absorb light because they're underground. What they do have is a wide ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Yoon and Chien identified a crucial amino acid of the transporter that, when modified ...