Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Cells get nutrients from their environment, but where do those nutrients come from ... are quite diverse and include cells found in green plants, phytoplankton, and cyanobacteria.

Two groundbreaking studies published in the journal Cell shed light on the assembly, function and evolutionary diversity of the chloroplast protein import system. Chloroplasts are fundamental ...