A bright green sea slug along America’s coast feeds on sunlight, not food, borrowing plant power to survive months unfed, ...

Plants rely on careful coordination inside every cell to survive, grow, and respond to changing surroundings. Inside plant cells, different genetic systems guide essential tasks such as photosynthesis ...

Mitochondria and chloroplasts are both vital organelles within eukaryotic cells, serving unique but equally important roles. While both are involved in energy production, their structures, functions, ...

The macromolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes within the thylakoids of higher plant chloroplasts has been a topic of significant debate. Using in situ cryo-electron tomography, this ...

At first glance, the lettuce sea slug (Elysia crispata) looks like a leafy underwater alien. But what’s hiding inside its frilly green body is far more fascinating than its salad-like appearance.

Plant viruses are an economically important group of pathogens that significantly reduce crop yield in any global cultivation system. These entities are mainly composed of two macromolecules, proteins ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that ...

A new study has uncovered a novel P-type PPR protein, BoYgl-2, which plays a crucial role in chloroplast RNA editing and chlorophyll biosynthesis in cabbage. This discovery sheds new light on the ...

Drought affects about 50% of global rice (Oryza sativa L.) production and, therefore, is a challenge for the development and release of commercial cultivars for most breeding programs (Chatterjee et ...

From left, postdoctoral researcher Bidhan Chandra De, chemistry professor Angad Mehta and their colleagues found evidence suggesting that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and ...

Scientists at The University of Tokyo have integrated chloroplasts, the energy-producing organelles found in plants and algae, into hamster cells, enabling them to perform photosynthesis for up to two ...