It shows how a pathogen's effector protein targets the chloroplast protein StFC-II, increasing its levels in chloroplasts and ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

For the first time, researchers in Göttingen and Hannover have successfully seen the chloroplast copying machine, the RNA ...

Eukaryotic cells are more complex than prokaryotic ones because of specialized organelles. Learn how ancient collaborations between cells gave eukaryotes an important energy boost. Plant Cells ...

In chloroplasts, cpSRP use two mechanisms to target both chloroplast- and nuclear-encoded proteins to the thylakoid membranes that house the photosynthetic machinery (Fig. 1). The first SRP ...

Hungarian researchers at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research have shown that the leaves of the ornamental never never plant can store water efficiently for up to ...

Plants also have some very specialised cells. Root hair cells don't have light absorbing chloroplast because they don't absorb light because they're underground. What they do have is a wide ...