Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago. Chloroplasts are key structures in plants and ...
The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do the same thing. Photosynthesis in plants and algae is ...
This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...
A growing body of research is revealing how the single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii coordinates a rapid, multi ...
These images show chloroplasts in an Elodea densa plant cell (green), overlayed by their tracked movements over twenty minutes. The colour of the movement track represents the distance covered, as ...
Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 68, No. 12, Special Issue: The Changing Climate of Plant Membrane Biology (2017), pp. 3129-3143 (15 pages) Salt stress impacts multiple aspects of plant metabolism ...
Plant cells host a variety of organelles segregated into distinct functional groups. Among those organelles, the nucleus, ...