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

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...

Photosynthesis: A Chemical and Biological ... This cycle can't continue without chloroplasts, a type of organelle found in plant cells. While these resemble the mitochondria found in animal ...

Photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts found within cells. It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make ...

By mixing in chloroplast-implanted cells, the cells could produce their own oxygen via photosynthesis. In the study, the host cells showed accelerated growth rates for up to two days, but then ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor, ...

However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the earliest cells that evolved the ability to capture light energy and use it to produce energy-rich molecules. When these ...

Plants adjust cellular pressure to respond to environmental factors. The evolution of stomata played a major role in changing ...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

Through photosynthesis, the particles of light power a cellular reaction that manufactures chemical energy (in the form of sugars), which is then passed around the food web in a complex dance of ...

Photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts found within cells. It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make ...