Engulfment of an early photosynthetic cyanobacterium by a non-photosynthetic cell resulted in the evolution of present chloroplasts, the plant-specific cell organelles where photosynthesis takes place ...

Chloroplasts are the solar cells of plants and green algae. In a process called photosynthesis, light energy is used to produce biochemical energy and the oxygen we breathe. Thus, photosynthesis is ...

Stress is present everywhere, even bacteria and plant cells have to cope with it. They express various specific stress proteins, but how exactly this line of defense works is often not clear. A group ...

WEST YORKSHIRE, England—ImerPlast U.K. Ltd.'s IM30 compound was chosen for a 100 percent post-consumer recycled resin paint pot. The pot, molded by Emballator in Bradford, U.K., and used by Crown for ...