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Artificial cells to serve as the powerhouse of the future

Chloroplasts and mitochondria are responsible for producing energy in nature, which is essential for creating sustainable, artificial cells in the lab. In addition to being “the powerhouses of the cell,” as the adage from middle school biology goes, mitochondria are also one of the most difficult intracellular components to artificially clone.

30 Mar 2023

Smallest known freshwater green algae, Medakamo hakoo, discovered

A new species of microalgae was discovered in water from a home aquarium. Scientists from the University of Tokyo noticed Medakamo hakoo while examining DNA samples taken from algae. Its DNA sequence did not match any previously known species.

30 Jan 2023

UCR researchers decode the secret language of photosynthesis

For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars.

3 Jan 2023

New effort to generate high quality reference genomes for 1,000 known species of euglenoids

The Euglena International Network (EIN) (https://euglenanetwork.org/), founded in 2020, is a global consortium of hundreds of scientists around the world with the collective goal of supporting euglenoid science through collaborative and integrative omics between academics and industry.

23 Nov 2022

Study offers insight into the working and importance of Fd/Trx pathway in plants

Photosynthesis is one of the most important chemical reactions, not just for plants but also for the entire world.

22 Nov 2022

Molecular insights into the photosynthesis process

The most essential foundation of life on Earth is photosynthesis. Plants and single-celled algae use sunlight’s energy to turn it into sugar and biomass.

17 Oct 2022

The influence of mitochondria on evolution, food security, and climate change

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that it will support the work of a cooperative team of researchers, led by Elizabeth Vierling, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who intend to spend the next four years researching the function of mitochondria in plant productivity.

13 Sep 2022

Researchers discover a new way plants are adapting to changing climate

While increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere encourage plant growth, they also reduce the nutritional value of plants, which can have a larger impact on nutrition and food safety worldwide.

13 Sep 2022

Researchers study the impacts of high carbon dioxide channels in plant membranes

A group from the Australian National University studied the impacts of expanding the number of carbon dioxide channels in plant membranes.

12 May 2022

Potential solution to make plants more tolerant lies in a single fatty acid

Climate change doesn't just mean warmer weather. Cold spells can hit unusual lows, too, and the fluctuations between warm and chilly are becoming more extreme.

13 Apr 2022

Plant biologists determine molecular ‘blueprint’, showing how plants observe light

For survival, plants depend on their ability to detect light. Plants, unlike animals, do not have photoreceptors in their eyes to receive and transmit messages from visual inputs.

1 Apr 2022

Tweaking carotenoids found to improve plant growth and increase yield

Manipulating the content of carotenoids, such as ß-carotene, has been found to improve plant growth and increase yield and tolerance to abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity.

8 Mar 2022

Research reveals nutrient responses underpinning a potentially deadly, low-chlorophyll state in plants

Green is a color that is almost universally associated with plants-;for good reason. The green pigment chlorophyll is essential to plants' ability to generate food; but what happens if they don't have enough of it?

13 Dec 2021

New program can help to correctly interpret the genetic code of newly sequenced organisms

Yekaterina "Kate" Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she could check the requirement off her program in systems biology. She wondered how genetic code, once thought to be universal, could evolve and change.

10 Nov 2021

Research provides novel insight into plant chloroplasts and proteins within

A recent study provides insight into plant chloroplasts and the proteins inside them.

17 Sep 2021

UC Riverside scientists aim to turn edible plants into mRNA vaccine factories

The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.

17 Sep 2021

Study could help choose the ideal DNA extraction method for microbiome research

Let's face it, we are a results-driven society. Too focused on the outcome, people don't often think about the "how." For instance, did you think about "how" you got to work this morning or did you just get there? In microbiome studies the results are the graphs and the data but the "how," like commuting, is often just part of a routine.

13 Sep 2021