Chloroplasts are essential organelles in plant cells responsible for photosynthesis and other vital functions. A significant aspect of chloroplast function is the import of proteins encoded by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Specifically, we are interested in how and why chloroplasts dramatically change their morphology by sending out stroma-filled tubules called “stromules.” We are studying their function during ...

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 ...