Highlights•Structural information is required to fully understand the molecular basis of
transporter function.•Resolved atomic structures of transporters must put into context with …

Background Plant membrane transporters are involved in diverse cellular processes
underpinning plant physiology, such as nutrient acquisition, hormone movement, resource …

As our ecosystems experience challenges associated with climate change, an improved
understanding of the fundamental biochemical processes governing plant physiology is …

Plants have to absorb essential nutrients from the soil and do this via specialized membrane
proteins. Groundbreaking studies about half a century ago led to the identification of different …

Transport proteins are crucial for cellular function at all levels. Numerous importers and
exporters facilitate transport of a diverse array of metabolites and ions intra-and …

Covering: up to 2022 Plants are organic chemists par excellence and produce an amazing
array of diverse chemical structures. Whereas primary metabolites are essential for all living …

This review is a distillation of the vast amount of physiological and molecular data on plant
membrane transport, to provide a concise overview of the main processes involved in the …

In the past decade, an increasing number of plant genomes ranging from unicellular alga to
trees have been completely sequenced. As the transport of water, nutrients, hormones, and …

Since the first molecular structures of plant transporters were discovered over a decade ago,
considerable advances have been made in the study of plant membrane transport, but we …

Membrane transporters set the framework organising the complexity of plant metabolism in
cells, tissues and organisms. Their substrate specificity and controlled activity in different …