Nature

AKR2A-mediated import of chloroplast outer membrane proteins is essential for chloroplast biogenesis

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia) was grown on Murashige and Skoog plates at 22 °C in a culture room or in a greenhouse under ...
Nature

Construction of a chloroplast protein interaction network and functional mining of photosynthetic proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. In this study, we applied an integrative genomics strategy to identify a set of reliable chloroplast proteins in Arabidopsis. Based on these ...
Phys.org

Chloroplasts' ancient origins: Organelles may have emerged as energy producers before switching to carbon assimilation

One of the most momentous events in the history of life involved endosymbiosis—a process by which one organism engulfed another and, instead of ingesting it, incorporated its DNA and functions into ...
Science Daily

What is a grass? Chloroplast DNA reveals that a grass may not be a grass

Researchers recently investigated the evolution of grasses, one of the most economic and ecologically important plant families, by sequencing the chloroplast DNA of an early diverging grass genus, ...