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

A team of researchers at Chonnam National University has identified a rice gene that plays a dual role in protecting plants ...

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, ...

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

Fruit peel color is more than a surface trait: it shapes consumer preference, market value, and breeding direction. In ...

Bacterial vascular diseases can turn hidden infections into rapid crop collapse because pathogens build protective biofilms ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays. Living on light is a dangerous ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” ...

Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells. One of the ...

Scientists have long known that chloroplasts help plants turn the sun’s energy into food, but a new study, led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, shows that they are also ...

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 ...