Life as we know it wouldn’t be possible without chloroplasts — those tiny, bean-shaped structures inside plant and algae cells that harness the sun’s energy to turn water and carbon dioxide into ...

Under cold conditions, not only the mother plant but also the father plant can pass on its chloroplasts to the offspring. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in ...

Changes in pigment contents and ultrastructure have followed in cotyledons of mustard (Sinapis alba L.) seedlings during dark-mediated senescence. The seedlings were kept in white light for 7 d, ...

Dark-grown cells of the pigment mutant C-6D of Scenedesmus obliquus, strain D3 (Gaffron 1939), contain only chlorophyll (Chl) a and carotenoid precursors. In these cells a functioning photosystem I ...