The Chloroplast (IMAGE)

Kumamoto University

The Chloroplast

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The textbook description of the chloroplast shows that it is surrounded by two envelopes. However, recent research by Kumamoto University's Professor Takano has shown that moss chloroplasts have an extra peptidoglycan 'wall.'

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Professor Hiroyoshi Takano

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