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, ...

CTR1's main job in the chloroplast is to phosphorylate the TOC33 at a specific location—at position 260 in the protein chain of an amino acid called serine. By altering this site in the plants ...

Plant cells have certain distinguishing features, including chloroplasts, cell walls, and intracellular vacuoles. Photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts; cell walls allow plants to have strong ...

It recognizes and facilitates the entry of chloroplast-targeted proteins to the chloroplast during early plant development. The process that regulates the TOC protein function remains elusive.

Sea slugs, such as Elysia chlorotica, are small marine creatures that produce energy from sunlight - just like plants.

Their findings suggest some bacteria could use trace oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis ... whose mitochondria evolved from Alphaproteobacteria, and ...

In plants, photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts. Plants have several adaptations that help them make as much energy as possible through photosynthesis. Their leaves are thin with a large surface ...

In green tissues of plants, glycolipids (MGDG and DGDG) occupy a large portion of the body, and chloroplasts are the main site of glycolipid synthesis. A large part of the precursor DAG for glycolipid ...