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 ...

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

As a result of this evolutionary event, chloroplasts possess two envelope membranes, and have retained functional remnants of their original cyanobacterial genomes.

Researchers identified a large novel protein complex in the inner chloroplast membrane that functions as a motor to import proteins into the chloroplast. Components of the complex evolved from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, Matsunaga says that "by mixing in chloroplast-implanted cells, oxygen could be supplied to the cells through photosynthesis, by light irradiation, thereby improving the conditions inside ...

TO THE RESCUE Chloroplasts (blue) squeeze between the plant cell membrane (magenta, line) and one of the Irish potato famine microbe’s invading fingerlike haustorium (magenta, circles).

Chloroplasts are believed to have evolved from photosynthetic cyanobacteria, ... which reside in the membranes of the organelles and swap ATP with its energy-depleted precursor, ADP.

A study led by LMU plant biologist Hans-Henning Kunz uncovers a new role for ion transporters: they participate in gene regulation in chloroplasts. In plants, photosynthesis takes place in ...