More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

Molecular markers, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellites, have been used to study cacao genetics, yet chloroplast genome data remain scarce. Plastid genomes provide ...

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Chloroplasts are semi-autonomous organelles that have some degree of independence in their operation and reproduction. However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell ...

In the study, "Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes of Theobroma cacao from northern Peru," published in PLOS ONE, ...

1 Chinese Medicine Guangdong Laboratory, Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, Zhuhai, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated ...

Furthermore, unlike isolated thylakoid membranes, photosystem II (PSII) did not form a semi-crystalline array and distributed uniformly within the membrane plane and across stacked grana membranes in ...

Sea slugs, such as Elysia chlorotica, are small marine creatures that produce energy from sunlight - just like plants.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.