How plants tune their greenness to light quality
Scientists are refining our understanding of how light wavelengths affect the way plants develop their chloroplasts.
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2020
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From darkness to light: New findings unravel how plants control energy generation
Researchers at Western Sydney University and The Australian National University have discovered new chemical communication pathways that determine how a plant changes when it emerges from darkness in the soil to light.
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2020
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Plant protein helps control powerhouse of plant cell
A new Michigan State University study shows how a protein, called peroxiredoxin Q, or PRXQ, connects two biochemical pathways that are vital for plant chloroplast health.
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2020
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Plants use a single communication route when developing new chloroplasts
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 protein that was first identified ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2019
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Protein that triggers plant defences to light stress identified
A newly discovered protein turns on plants' cellular defence to excessive light and other stress factors caused by a changing climate, according to a new study published in eLife.
Biotechnology
Oct 15, 2019
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Mystery behind striped barley solved
Plants with green leaves and stems are a common sight and are one of the most natural things on earth. But when considering that this colouring is achieved by small chlorophyll-filled organelles called chloroplasts, distributed ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2019
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New rhomboid-like protein helps plants produce lipids
The Benning lab has identified a rhomboid-like protein that may help plant chloroplasts tune their lipid production. The study is published in The Plant Journal.
Biotechnology
Jun 5, 2019
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Scientists uncover a link between RNA editing and chloroplast-to-nucleus communication
What will a three-degree-warmer world look like? How will plants fare in more extreme weather conditions? When experiencing stress or damage from various sources, plants use chloroplast-to-nucleus communication to regulate ...
Biotechnology
Apr 19, 2019
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Team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplasts
MIT researchers have developed a new genetic tool that could make it easier to engineer plants that can survive drought or resist fungal infections. Their technique, which uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into the chloroplasts ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 25, 2019
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New biochemical pathway that may develop more resilient crop varieties
Researchers from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, have discovered a new biochemical pathway in plants which they have named CHLORAD.
Biochemistry
Feb 21, 2019
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