The sun is the ultimate source of energy for virtually all organisms. Photosynthetic cells are able to use solar energy to synthesize energy-rich food molecules and to produce oxygen.

To form the stacks of appressed sacs, the membrane must be bent into a tight fold at their edges. This implies that the thylakoid membranes forming the grana stacks must somehow be induced to ...

The work relies on the identification of structures called thylakoid membranes. These are stacks of disc-shaped membranes that increase the surface area within the cell that can play host to ...

Light-dependent photosynthetic reactions are performed by a set of photosynthetic complexes and molecules accommodated in the specialised cell membranes, called thylakoid membranes. While some ...

Stacks of thylakoids within cyanobacteria may ... Javaux and colleagues found the oldest thylakoid-like structures in microfossils in shale from Australia. The structures were also present in ...

However it is now believed that thylakoid membranes in cyanobacteria were what made them capable of using sunlight to create energy and release oxygen. The oldest known fossil thylakoids date back ...

A team of researchers at Zhejiang University School of Medicine has developed a way to use photosynthetic cells from plants when treating osteoarthritis in mice. In their paper published in the ...

An LMU team has now identified a protein that tucks the membrane in at the edge of each stack ("Arabidopsis CURVATURE THYLAKOID1 Proteins Modify Thylakoid Architecture by Inducing Membrane Curvature") ...