Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids originate? Their origin is explained by endosymbiosis, the act of a ...

The new findings imply that chloroplasts once shared their primary function of supplying energy to the larger cell because ...

The structural analysis of plastids is particularly challenging ... of which there is very little in plant cells under such conditions, which sounds contradictory. Resolving the contradiction ...

These mitochondria are called hydrogenosomes and allow the cell to gain about 4 mol of ATP ... the cytosol, or even the plastids of other eukaryotes (Figure 1). A fourth category of eukaryotes ...