Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Everything about a plant’s life is affected by its leaves. These powerhouses are the sugar factories of botany! Leaves have amazing mechanisms for sustaining the plant’s life, as well as their vital ...

Cyanobacteria eventually gave rise to chloroplasts in algae and green plants, and chloroplasts are the small bodies in plant cells that carry out photosynthesis today. The Bauer group's results ...

So, as a bookend to the fall foliage season, in the spring, the green comes first. Young leaves are light green with their ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants ... The electron transfer chain in chloroplast thylakoid membranes uses solar energy to produce NADPH and ATP, which power carbon fixation into ...

Chloroplasts are specialized organelles where photosynthesis occurs, in a highly structured network of membranes, composed of stacked thylakoids interconnected by lamellae. They possess their own ...

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

Scientists create artificial leaves from supramolecular hydrogels that efficiently convert light into chemical energy for green, recyclable photocatalysis.

During photosynthesis, the plant soaks up light from the sun using a green-colored substance called chlorophyll, which is stored in tiny structures in the plant's leaves. These structures, called ...

Oneida city officials joined students from Seneca Street Elementary School this past week in Allen Park for a belated celebration of Arbor Day. During the event, Oneida Recreation Department Director ...

Sunlight is captured in the chloroplasts (organelles in the leaf that are stacked to work together) that convert light energy into chemical energy. The formula for photosynthesis is: This is ...