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 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 ...

By doing so, they sustain life on Earth. Following the previous Research Topics on Structure and Function of Chloroplasts, (Vol 1, Vol 2), in this third volume, we aim to update the latest advances ...

Learn how cell function depends on a diverse group of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and sugars. Plant Cells, Chloroplasts, and Cell Walls Plant cells have some specialized properties that make ...

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 ...

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 ...

Red algal chloroplasts stayed active in hamster cells for 48 hours A new technique enables chloroplast integration into animal cells Study offers potential for photosynthesis in non-plant organisms ...

PDV1 was thought to work corporately with PDV2 to recruit ARC5 to the chloroplast division site in the cytosol ... a component of the Min system that function in the stroma to regulate the positioning ...

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