Optimal packing problems have inspired mathematicians for centuries. Biophysicists now add a layer to the question: How do chloroplasts arrange themselves optimally within cells, when the meaning of ...

A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. New research may have found a way to 'copy' the mechanism ...

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Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 67, No. 13, Special Issue: Plant Organellar Signalling (2016), pp. 3845-3854 (10 pages) The major role played by chloroplasts during light harvesting, energy ...

In a world first that challenges what we thought we knew about biology, scientists have successfully engineered animal cells that can photosynthesize. The breakthrough promises to revolutionize ...

Whether Guard Cells (GCs) carry out photosynthesis has been debated for decades. Earlier studies suggested that guard cell chloroplasts (GCCs) cannot fix CO 2 but later studies argued otherwise. Until ...

Ganesan, I., Shi, L.-X., Labs, M., and Theg, S.M. (2018). Evaluating the functional pore size of chloroplast TOC and TIC protein translocons: import of folded ...

Palmer, 35, has been studying the structure and evolution of the chloroplast genome since he was a doctoral candidate at Stanford. A chloroplast is the organelle in plant cells in which photosynthesis ...