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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

1 Department of Pharmacy, Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhu, Anhui, China 2 College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China As a relatively independent ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

2025年4月22日，上海交通大学农业与生物学院武国章课题组在国际权威综合性期刊Nature Communications上发表了题为“Chloroplast precursor protein preClpD overaccumulation ...

Now, researchers at the University of Geneva have uncovered the role of a single gene, CLCN2, in shaping these patterns, shedding light on how snakes develop their distinctive appearances. Corn snakes ...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s disease pose significant challenges to modern medicine. Recent research has ...

I didn’t know what my life was missing until I came across this adorable, yet fascinating sea slug. The leaf sheep, or leaf ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...

Edited by Donald Ort, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; received December 10, 2024; accepted January 28, 2025 ...