This protein storage function is unique to plant vacuoles and does not occur in other organisms. During evolution, plants developed a dedicated mechanism to transport large quantities of proteins into ...

How do plants breathe through stomata? Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the tonoplast. Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 66, No. 5 (2015), pp. 1191-1203 (13 pages) Tonoplast intrinsic proteins (TIPs) are integral membrane proteins that are known to function in plants as aquaporins.

This illustration shows how the membrane trafficking protein VAMP72 gradually changed during plant evolution to give rise to VAMP727, which functions in transporting storage proteins to vacuoles. The ...

In a study now published in Nature Plants, Dr. Yihong Feng (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) and Professor Takashi ...

PREVIOUSLY 1, I put forward the view that pinkish vacuoles are receptacles of enzymes for synthesis of various food reserves in plants, lower as well as higher; in support of this I produced evidence ...

Videomicroscropy and transmission electron microscopy were used to study the interaction of Toxoplasma gondii sporozoites with cultured cardiopulmonary artery endothelial, embryonic bovine tracheal ...