Coalescence and directed anisotropic growth of starch granule initials in subdomains of Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts
oleh: Léo Bürgy, Simona Eicke, Christophe Kopp, Camilla Jenny, Kuan Jen Lu, Stephane Escrig, Anders Meibom, Samuel C. Zeeman
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01 |
Deskripsi
Starch is the major form of energy storage in plant cells and forms discrete, semi-crystalline granules within plastids. Here the authors use electron tomography and nanoSIMS to show that Arabidopsis starch granules initiate in stromal pockets between thylakoid membranes that coalesce before growing anisotropically.