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 ...

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 ...

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

Photosynthesis In Animal Cells Achieved For The First Time Using Implanted Chloroplasts The researchers are now calling these plant-animal hybrids "planimal" cells.

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

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 ...

The thylakoids of green plants reside within organelles called chloroplasts, membrane-bounded compartments in the cell cytoplasm that serve as self-contained reaction vessels.

So, the key question was: How are chloroplast proteins extracted from the membrane to enable this to happen? Our discovery of the CHLORAD system answers this question, and we identified two novel ...

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