Photosynthesis, the natural process of converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and generating molecular oxygen, is a ...

A Research Topic in honor of Professor Reto Jörg Strasser’s 80th birthday, which was on December 28, 2023, invites original research and review papers for ...

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 ...

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 light-harvesting "nanodevice" in one of the planet's most ancient lineages ...

The researchers developed a model that traces the movement of OCS from the atmosphere into plant chloroplasts—the cellular structures where photosynthesis occurs. This approach leverages OCS’s ...

Likewise, Bru notes the rush of energy that an unexpected result gives him to continue. Plant cells, which contain chloroplasts that host the photosynthesis reaction, absorb sunlight for plants’ use ...

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 ...

Plants use photosynthesis to derive much of their energy through cells filled with chlorophyll—called chloroplasts—that convert sunlight into life-sustaining power. Animals, on the other hand ...

Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do the same thing. Photosynthesis in plants and algae is performed by tiny organelles known as chloroplasts, which convert sunlight into oxygen ...

The chloroplast is an essential organelle of plant cells and algae, responsible for photosynthesis. Within this organelle, light is captured and converted into chemical energy, enabling plants to ...

Most plants (as well as algae ... This indicates that photosynthesis was indeed occurring,with the chloroplasts potentially acting as a carbon source. “Our study is the first to measure the ...