New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

Unlike plants and cyanobacteria, photosynthetic bacteria, such as purple sulfur bacteria, thrive in extreme environments with high salt concentrations and alkalinity. These bacteria use hydrogen ...

In the new engineered potatoes, a gene inserted into the plant cell’s nucleus produced a protein that traveled into the chloroplast, the cell organelle used in photosynthesis. There it broke ...

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Interestingly, there is a strong correlation between the direction of stromules from chloroplasts and the direction of chloroplast movement. Stromule-directed chloroplast movement was observed in ...