Mitochondrial fusion in plants and its role in development are poorly understood. Cultured
tobacco mesophyll protoplasts provide an excellent experimental system for visualizing …

Light energy is essential for photosynthetic energy production and plant growth.
Chloroplasts in green tissues convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy via the …

Mitochondrial respiration in plants provides energy for biosynthesis, and its balance with
photosynthesis determines the rate of plant biomass accumulation. We describe recent …

In mammalian cells, apoptosis is often mediated via organelles. While apoptotic-like cell
death occurs in plants, the mechanistic details are unresolved. Transgenic tobacco plants …

Mitochondria play essential roles in plant metabolism, supporting both development and
stress responses. To maintain a healthy pool of mitochondria, several quality control …

Understanding how cell organelles and compartments communicate with each other has
always been an important field of knowledge widely explored by many researchers …

Plant development and defence are intimately connected to programmed cell death (PCD).
PCD can occur after environmental cues such as pathogen infection, mechanical damage or …

A novel insight into Arabidopsis mitochondrial function was revealed from a large
experimental proteome derived by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry …

Programmed cell death (PCD) in plants is a crucial component of development and defence
mechanisms. In animals, different types of cell death (apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis) …

Throughout more than 1.5 billion years of obligate endosymbiotic co-evolution, mitochondria
have developed not only the capacity to control distinct molecular cascades leading to cell …