Annals of Botany, Vol. 110, No. 6, Highlight on Forage Crops (November 2012), pp. 1327-1339 (13 pages) • Background and Aims Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass) is the most important forage grass ...

Thiamine triphosphate puts the brake on the activation state of chloroplast ATP synthase. Metabolic effectors are critical in orchestrating biological processes. B vitamin-derived ...

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 ...

Photosynthesis takes place before our eyes every day in every single little green leaf -- yet the details of the complex process have not yet been fully understood. A research team has unraveled ...

Late blight, caused by P. infestans, remains one of the most devastating diseases in potato production worldwide. Traditional breeding and chemical control often fall short due to the pathogen’s rapid ...

As presently circumscribed, the genus Vigna contains approximately 150 species distributed in both the New World and Old World. The objective of our work was to test Old World Vigna for monophyly and ...

Researchers in Japan and the U.K. have discovered new details of how young leaves build their first chloroplasts, the energy factories of plant cells. The researchers identified a new role for a ...

Bioengineered artificial chloroplasts take us a step further toward clean energy and carbon-based products. The interdisciplinary, multi-lab MaxSynBio network has announced the successful creation of ...

Recent research from Japan has demonstrated that chloroplasts from algae can be integrated into hamster cells, allowing these cells to perform photosynthesis. Previously, it was believed that the ...