Cucumber peel color can decide whether a fruit looks fresh, desirable, and worth buying. In many markets, especially in ...

A new study reveals the dynamics of photosynthesis at the cellular level. Led by co-authors Professor Barry Bruce and ...

As climate change intensifies droughts and other environmental stresses, maintaining crop productivity has become a major ...

As climate change intensifies droughts and other environmental stresses, maintaining crop productivity has become a major challenge for global agriculture. Drought can impair chloroplast development, ...

Plants and algae convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. This process is vital for life on Earth and provides us with oxygen, food, fuels, and other valuable products.

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is an ideal model organism for the live imaging of chloroplast nucleoids because each of its cells harbors one chloroplast and the divisions can be ...

Experimental seedlings in the laboratory. UC Davis plant biologists have discovered how chloroplasts, responsible for photosynthesis in green plants, also play a key role in plant immunity to ...

Chloroplasts trace their origin to a primary endosymbiotic event in which an ancestral cyanobacterial endosymbiont was reduced into the chloroplast (the primary chloroplast surrounded by the inner and ...

When a plant begins growing its first leaves, it is in a race for survival to build its chloroplasts. Research reveals that a chain of communication from the developing chloroplast to the cell's ...