Photosynthesis: Study reveals how minerals are involved in homeostasis of chloroplasts

Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work ...
JSTOR Daily

CIA2 Coordinately Up-Regulates Protein Import and Synthesis in Leaf Chloroplasts

Plastid biogenesis and maintenance depend on the coordinated assembly of proteins imported from the cytosol with proteins translated within plastids. Chloroplasts in leaf cells have a greater need for ...
Science Daily

Direct transfer of plant genes from chloroplasts into the cell nucleus: Gene function preserved despite structural differences in the DNA

Chloroplasts, the plant cell's green solar power generators, were once living beings in their own right. This changed about one billion years ago, when they were swallowed up but not digested by ...
EurekAlert!

DGIST reveals how “switch” in aging of plant leaves works

A joint research team led by Professors Pyungok Lim, Jongchan Lee, and Minsik Kim from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST; President Kunwoo Lee) has discovered a new molecular ...