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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 ...

The evolution of photosynthesis involved significant genetic innovations. Chloroplasts, the specialized organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants, arose through an event known as ...

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 ...

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 ...