A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that sustains life on Earth by ...

Thylakoid membranes (green) are organized into stacks of appressed thylakoids (grana) and individual thylakoids connecting the grana (stromal lamellae). Note the intact chloroplast envelope (blue) and ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within chloroplasts, shedding light on a key event in the evolution of plant life. Led ...

Chloroplasts' ancient origins: Organelles may have emerged as energy producers before switching to carbon assimilation by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Editors' notes ...

According to Nevo, this was found by examining the chloroplast membranes under a cryo-scanning electron microscope and comparing the alignment of proteins in the membranes under light and darkness ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t ...

By using confocal microscopy, they observed movement of the chloroplast transit peptide-DNA (cpPD-DNA) complex across the chloroplast membranes. The cpPD-DNA complex was labeled with cyanine ...

Using a combination of molecular biology techniques, Yee and his team confirmed that the extra membrane around the phytoplankton chloroplast does contain an active, functional proton pump—one ...

Chloroplast This double-membraned plant organelle in is similar in some ways to the mitochondria of animal cells. The outer membrane of the chloroplast is freely permeable to small molecules via ...

Photosynthesis actually occurs in a highly specialized 'thylakoid' membrane system in the chloroplast. This system is encapsulated by the inner and outer envelope.