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, ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Yoon and Chien identified a crucial amino acid of the transporter that, when modified ...

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 ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. A paper in Science Advances by Gyeong Mee Yoon, associate professor of botany and plant ...

Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane must convey these proteins into the chloroplast. Altering this amino acid and the chemical modification can dramatically disrupt chloroplast ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

Colistin displaces divalent cations from the phosphate groups of membrane lipids, which leads to disruption of the outer cell membrane, leakage of intracellular contents and bacterial death.