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 ...

Under cold conditions, not only the mother plant but also the father plant can pass on its chloroplasts to the offspring. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in ...

Chloroplasts may seem like docile farmers of light. But inside these microscopic plant and algal cell structures lurks the spirit of a warrior. When a pathogen attacks a plant, chloroplasts stop ...

Chloroplasts are the ancestral members of a structurally diverse family of organelles known as plastids (which also includes proplastids, amyloplasts and chromoplasts). Plastids are responsible for ...

Photosynthesis is optimized by orienting leaves and chloroplasts towards the light source, responses that are usually mediated by the blue-light receptors phototropin 1 (phot1) and phototropin 2 ...

For more than a billion years, plants have had an internal dialogue, and we are just beginning to learn the words. The unusual conversation occurs between two compartments within plant cells—the ...