Scientists have long known that chloroplasts help plants turn the sun’s energy into food, but a new study, led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, shows that they are also ...

2. The chloroplast is surrounded by a more or less permanent sheath of non-granular cytoplasm. 3. No evidence was found of the existence of an osmotic membrane around the chloroplast. 4. Certain ...

Chloroplasts' ancient origins: Organelles may have emerged as energy producers before switching to carbon assimilation by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Editors' notes ...

When plant cells are infected with pathogens, networks of tiny tubes called stromules grow from the chloroplasts to the cell's nucleus and trigger programmed cell death and innate immune responses.

A study uncovers a new role for ion transporters: they participate in gene regulation in chloroplasts.