Two studies published in the journal Cell shed light on the assembly, function and evolutionary diversity of the chloroplast protein import system. Chloroplasts are fundamental organelles in plant ...

Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need. “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” says study co-author Nicholas Bellono ...

Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO 2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work properly, they require certain minerals—particularly ions of the metals ...

Chloroplasts may seem like docile farmers of light. But inside these microscopic plant and algal cell structures lurks the spirit of a warrior. When a pathogen attacks a plant, chloroplasts stop ...