A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

9. Little difference could be observed between the chloroplasts of distantly related seed plants which are placed quite far apart in the systematic scheme. 10. In many leaves a constant ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Plants have been using solar energy for millions of years, but advances in machine learning and protein engineering could ...

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

The paper focused on enzymes that help build the photosynthetic chloroplast membranes in plant cells. One of those enzymes is ...

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

Like animal cells, basic plant cells have a nucleus, a cell membrane and cytoplasm. They've also got a vacuole, chloroplasts and a cell wall, which are only found in plant cells and they can be a ...

In photosynthesis, chloroplast membranes provide the energy for carbon dioxide fixation, and we planned to exploit this ability, ” explained Erb. The team utilized the photosynthesis apparatus of the ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African countries,” Meacham-Hensold says. A high-yield soybean variety with the same ...

Raphael spent almost 15 years investigating chloroplasts before joining Nature Plants in 2022. After undergraduate studies at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), he obtained a PhD from the University of ...