Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

IN the course of an investigation into the origin of phenolic substances in ray parenchyma (Wardrop and ... 1 shows a transverse section of a ray cell from Eucalyptus elaeophora after fixation ...

The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host cells’ membranes, as in earlier work, the researchers adjusted the culture ...

The problem, however, is that animals’ immune systems tend to destroy chloroplasts the moment they are introduced into their ...