A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

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The collaboration, dubbed OPTIMiSE (Oxford Plastid Transformation for an Improved Sustainable Economy), aims to create an integrated pathway for designing, building, testing and delivering improved ...

Photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis to investigate the role of bioenergetics in chloroplast function and evolution. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54051-1; ...

Study offers insight into chloroplast evolution Ancient organelles likely originated as energy-producers but later switched to carbon-assimilation Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

A chloroplast-mimicking nanoreactor for enhanced CO₂ electrocatalysis. Chloroplast, which is a double-membrane-bounded organelle, is the main site for CO2 fixation via photosynthesis in green ...

Thirteen different protein subunits in this supercomplex were discovered. With the exception of Tic214 encoded by the chloroplast genome, all the other subunits are nuclear encoded. They are assembled ...

Botany: Chloroplast from the father Under cold conditions, not only the mother plant but also the father plant can pass on its chloroplasts to the offspring Date: January 24, 2023 ...

1 College of Life Sciences, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, China; 2 State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China; Theaceae species are ...

When looking for possible genes that could support chloroplast survival and photosynthesis, James Manharte and other researchers noticed that a key algal gene, psbO, was in the sea slug’s DNA. psbO is ...