Chloroplast, which is a double-membrane-bounded organelle, is the main site for CO 2 fixation via photosynthesis in green plants. The double-membrane configuration can regulate the transport of ...

What is a grass? Chloroplast DNA reveals that a grass may not be a grass Date: April 28, 2010 Source: American Journal of Botany Summary: Researchers recently investigated the evolution of grasses ...

Chloroplast is a special and important organelle of plant cells carrying out many essential processes such as photosynthesis and biosynthesis of fatty acids, pigments, and amino acids from ...

Photosynthesis takes place before our eyes every day in every single little green leaf -- yet the details ... the biogenesis of protein complexes in chloroplasts. It focused primarily on the ...

Without chloroplasts to convert sunlight into energy ... the production and release of another proposed communication molecule. During the first days of leaf development and times without sunlight, ...

Experimental seedlings in the laboratory. UC Davis plant biologists have discovered how chloroplasts, responsible for photosynthesis in green plants, also play a key role in plant immunity to ...

The unusual conversation occurs between two compartments within plant cells—the nucleus and the chloroplast. It is a dialogue that continues today, and, according to research just published in ...

Begonia species adapted to deep-shade conditions display blue leaf iridescence, a striking form of structural color originating from specialized chloroplasts in the epidermis. In the fading ...