Phototropism describes the directed growth of plant organs in response to light gradients, primarily mediated by blue-light photoreceptors known as phototropins. This adaptive behaviour optimises the ...

Experimental seedlings in the laboratory. UC Davis plant biologists have discovered how chloroplasts, responsible for photosynthesis in green plants, also play a key role in plant immunity to ...

Is the inside of a plant cell more like a liquid or a solid? While this may sound like an odd question, new research demonstrates it can be either, depending on how much light you shine on it.

Researchers have developed a new tool to sequence chloroplast DNA from hundreds of plants at once, to learn more about how plant populations move. This tool, CallHap, makes it cheaper and easier to ...

THE low-light intensity movement of the Mougeotia chloroplast (movement from profile to face position) can be induced by short irradiations with red light and occurs in a dark period of about 30 min ...