An electron micrograph therefore provides an excellent ... Besides the nucleus, two other organelles — the mitochondrion and the chloroplast — play an especially important role in eukaryotic ...

Whereas electron microscopy sampling is invasive, you have to cut a piece of leaf off, so in that case we can't follow the structural alterations of the same chloroplasts and grana in time and ...

Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now been able to gain fascinating new insights using cryo-electron microscopy ... damage the membranes in the chloroplasts, where photosynthesis ...

Of course, chloroplasts are not the only DNA-containing ... were Margit and Sylvan Nass in 1963. With a powerful electron microscope, they were able to zoom in on part of a mitochondrion and ...