Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

Transgenic chloroplasts offer unique advantages in plant biotechnology, including high-level foreign protein expression, absence of epigenetic effects, and gene containment due to the lack of ...

The researchers used two catalysts, both based in transition metals, iridium and molybdenum for the experiment.

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

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 ...

Oneida city officials joined students from Seneca Street Elementary School this past week in Allen Park for a belated ...

1994). In addition, aerobic metabolic processes such as respiration and photosynthesis unavoidably lead to the production of reactive oxygen species in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and peroxisomes ...

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

An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth's evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a ...

In mature tomato fruits, chlorophylls are degraded and replaced by carotenoids through the conversion of chloroplasts in chromoplasts, while in red grape berries, chloroplasts persist at maturity and ...

Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plants, as a cofactor in multi-heme cytochromes and within iron-sulfur clusters. However, Fe can be toxic at high concentrations. Free Fe in cells can ...

In contrast, a unique chloroplast SRP in green plants is primarily dedicated to the post-translational targeting of light harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding (LHC) proteins. In both pathways, ...