#plastids — Public Fediverse posts

10-Dec-2025
The evolutionary mysteries of a rare #parasitic plant
New study maps the strange #genomes of Asia-Pacific Balanophora species, giving new insights into the #evolution of parasitic #plants and an unconventional role of #plastids.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1109271

#science #ecology

We❤️#reviews! And if you're #MORF-curious, we've got the #PlantScience paper for you!
Li et al. explore these essential regulators that affect the #editing efficiency of most editing sites in #plastids and #mitochondria!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13967
@wileyplantsci
#PlantScience #JIPB #botany

A single cell's siesta: How non-moving #microbes manage to avoid bright light https://phys.org/news/2024-11-cell-siesta-celled-bright.html

Light-regulated #chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411725121

"The structure that allows the chloroplast to make necessary changes was found to be a network of thin filaments. Together, these filaments form a material that can easily contract and expand in all directions."

#Protists #Algae #Organelles #Plastids #Dinoflagellates #Biology #CellBiology

A single cell's siesta: How non-moving #microbes manage to avoid bright light https://phys.org/news/2024-11-cell-siesta-celled-bright.html

Light-regulated #chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411725121

"The structure that allows the chloroplast to make necessary changes was found to be a network of thin filaments. Together, these filaments form a material that can easily contract and expand in all directions."

#Protists #Algae #Organelles #Plastids #Dinoflagellates #Biology #CellBiology

A single cell's siesta: How non-moving #microbes manage to avoid bright light https://phys.org/news/2024-11-cell-siesta-celled-bright.html

Light-regulated #chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411725121

"The structure that allows the chloroplast to make necessary changes was found to be a network of thin filaments. Together, these filaments form a material that can easily contract and expand in all directions."

#Protists #Algae #Organelles #Plastids #Dinoflagellates #Biology #CellBiology

A single cell's siesta: How non-moving #microbes manage to avoid bright light https://phys.org/news/2024-11-cell-siesta-celled-bright.html

Light-regulated #chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411725121

"The structure that allows the chloroplast to make necessary changes was found to be a network of thin filaments. Together, these filaments form a material that can easily contract and expand in all directions."

#Protists #Algae #Organelles #Plastids #Dinoflagellates #Biology #CellBiology

A single cell's siesta: How non-moving #microbes manage to avoid bright light https://phys.org/news/2024-11-cell-siesta-celled-bright.html

Light-regulated #chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411725121

"The structure that allows the chloroplast to make necessary changes was found to be a network of thin filaments. Together, these filaments form a material that can easily contract and expand in all directions."

#Protists #Algae #Organelles #Plastids #Dinoflagellates #Biology #CellBiology

#Plastids can be engineered to enhance #photosynthetic & metabolic traits in #plants. This study identifies a #chloroplast-targeting peptide that is highly efficient in delivering biologically functional proteins to plastids in plants #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XFeNDk

#Plastids can be engineered to enhance #photosynthetic & metabolic traits in #plants. This study identifies a #chloroplast-targeting peptide that is highly efficient in delivering biologically functional proteins to plastids in plants #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XFeNDk

#Plastids can be engineered to enhance #photosynthetic & metabolic traits in #plants. This study identifies a #chloroplast-targeting peptide that is highly efficient in delivering biologically functional proteins to plastids in plants #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XFeNDk

#Plastids can be engineered to enhance #photosynthetic & metabolic traits in #plants. This study identifies a #chloroplast-targeting peptide that is highly efficient in delivering biologically functional proteins to plastids in plants #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XFeNDk

#Plastids can be engineered to enhance #photosynthetic & metabolic traits in #plants. This study identifies a #chloroplast-targeting peptide that is highly efficient in delivering biologically functional proteins to plastids in plants #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XFeNDk

The #symbioses that gave rise to primary #organelles are key events in the origin of #Eukaryotes. @PierreSGarcia @FredBarras & @SGribaldo use markers from 2 conserved machineries for [Fe-S] cluster biogenesis to support an early emergence of #mitochondria & #plastids within #Alphaproteobacteria & #Cyanobacteria #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3FNP5E5

Another #introduction for the latest wave!

I am a professor at Arizona State University. My lab studies host-beneficial #microbial infections in #eukaryotic cells. We are interested in how these infections are similar to and different from #pathogens, #mitochondria, and #plastids. We use #EvolutionaryBiology, #CellBiology, #genomics, #biochemistry, and #imaging as tools, and mostly study #bacteria that infect #insect cells but also work in other cool systems such as #plants and #lichens.