The biogenesis, morphogenesis, protection and senescence of chloroplasts are essential for maintaining a proper structure and function of chloroplasts, which will be the theme of this Research Topic.

Chloroplasts are organelles in plant and eukaryotic algal cells that convert light energy into relatively stable chemical energy via photosynthetic processes. By doing so, they sustain life on Earth.

Within chloroplasts, proteases play a crucial role in maintaining protein quality and regulating various functions, particularly under stress conditions. Recent research has focused on ...

Hungarian researchers at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and the HUN-REN Center for Energy Research have shown that the leaves ...

Chloroplasts are believed to have evolved from photosynthetic cyanobacteria, but it isn’t clear what functions the cyanobacteria originally performed for the cells that engulfed them ...

PDV1 was thought to work corporately with PDV2 to recruit ARC5 to the chloroplast division site in the cytosol. However, we found that the major role of PDV1 is to interact with and regulate the ...

Cell structure Description Function Cell type Cell wall Freely ... plant cell or fungal cell Chloroplasts Disc-shaped structures found in cytoplasm Location where photosynthesis occurs and sugar ...

The new findings imply that chloroplasts once shared their primary function of supplying energy to the larger cell because the plastids of glaucophytes and red algae seem to resemble a more ...

The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host cells’ membranes, as in earlier work, the researchers adjusted the culture ...

leading to the development of chloroplasts. Although the bacterium lost some important functions over time, like ...