Plastids are a group of essential, heterogenous semi-autonomous organelles characteristic
of plants that perform photosynthesis and a diversity of metabolic pathways that impact …

Organelles function as hubs of cellular metabolism and elements of cellular architecture. In
addition to 3 spatial dimensions that describe the morphology and localization of each …

Premise Unique among vascular plants, some species of Selaginella have single giant
chloroplasts in their epidermal or upper mesophyll cells (monoplastidy, M), varying in …

In higher plants and algae, chloroplasts are the organelle responsible for photosynthesis.
Previous work has focused mostly on the role of the photosynthetic pigments; however …

Iridescence in shade-dwelling plants has previously been described in only a few plant
groups, and even fewer where the structural colour is produced by intracellular structures. In …

In land plants plastid type differentiation occurs concomitantly with cellular differentiation
and the transition from one type to another is under developmental and environmental …

In vascular plants, the thylakoid architecture is dominated by the highly structured multiple
membrane layers known as grana. The structural diversity of the thylakoid system among …

The features of light propagation in plant leaves depend on the long-period ordering in
chloroplasts and the spectral characteristics of pigments. This work demonstrates a method …

Abstract Background and Aims Structural colour is responsible for the remarkable metallic
blue colour seen in the leaves of several plants. Species belonging to only ten genera have …

Natural photonic structures are common across the biological kingdoms, serving a diversity
of functionalities. The study of implications of photonic structures in plants and other …