Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University researchers conducted a genomic analysis of fine aroma cocoa from northern ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that sustains life on Earth by ...

Plants are constantly under siege by pathogens, and their survival depends on precise internal defense strategies. A new ...

Chloroplast tubes play a key role in plants' immune defense Date: June 25, 2015 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: When plant cells are infected with pathogens, networks of tiny ...

Hidden moss chloroplast 'wall' discovered Date: July 13, 2016 Source: Kumamoto University Summary: Researchers have succeeded in the world's first visualization of a peptidoglycan 'wall' present ...

Researchers in Japan and the U.K. have discovered new details of how young leaves build their first chloroplasts, the energy factories of plant cells. The researchers identified a new role for a ...

Researchers now know which protein triggers light-harvesting plant chloroplasts to turn into cell defenders when a pathogen attacks.

If scientists could genetically engineer chloroplasts into human skin cells, could it give us the energy needed to live in space long-term?

Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells.

Bioengineered photosynthesizing an artificial chloroplast could help tackle climate change, specifically the problem of rising atmospheric CO2 levels.