Plastids represent a largely diverse group of organelles in plant and algal cells that have
several common features but also a broad spectrum of differences in respect of how they …

Plastids are a group of essential, heterogenous semi-autonomous organelles characteristic
of plants that perform photosynthesis and a diversity of metabolic pathways that impact …

The Structure and Function of Plastids provides a comprehensive look at the biology of
plastids, the multifunctional biosynthetic factories that are unique to plants and algae. Fifty …

Plastids reside in all plant cells, and take on different forms in relation to their cellular
function, biochemistry and storage capacity. The modern era of molecular biology and …

In the course of endosymbiogenesis, the photosynthetic prokaryotes engulfed and retained
by different heterotrophic organisms have partially lost their independence during evolution …

Plastids provides a broad, state-of-the-art review of plastids, which are essential plant
organelles, vital for life on earth. The most common plastids are cholorplasts, which carry out …

Plastids are pivotal subcellular organelles that have evolved to perform specialized
functions in plant cells, including photosynthesis and the production and storage of …

Plastids display a high morphological and functional diversity. Starting from an
undifferentiated small proplastid, these plant cell organelles can develop into four major …

Derived by endosymbiosis from ancestral cyanobacteria, chloroplasts integrated seamlessly
into the biology of their host cell. That integration involved a massive transfer of genes to the …

Plastids are semiautonomous organelles found, in one form or another, in practically all
plant and algal cells, several taxa of marine mollusks and at least one phylum of parasitic …