A biological process in plants, thought to be useless and even wasteful, has significant benefits and should not be engineered out -- particularly in the face of looming climate change, says a team of ...

All plants and animals respire, releasing energy from food. At the cellular level, this process occurs in the mitochondria. But there are differences at the molecular level between how plants and ...

Alternative oxidase (AOX) plays a pivotal role in plant mitochondrial respiration by providing a non-phosphorylating bypass to the cytochrome pathway. By transferring electrons directly from ubiquinol ...

Scientists have found a universal rule that regulates the metabolism of plants of all kinds and sizes, and that may also offer a key to calculating their carbon dioxide emissions. That number must be ...

You would need hundreds to thousands of plants to improve your home's air quality, so a few houseplants won't make much of a ...

Potassium naphthenate, 20 mM, was applied to the foliage of 14-day-old plants of bush bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L, cv Top Crop, maize, Zea mays L, cv Golden Bantam, spring wheat, Triticum vulgare Vill.

New research provides the first-ever, atomic-level, 3D structure of the largest protein complex (complex I) involved in the plant mitochondrial electron transport chain. The results could unlock new ...