Plastid division is fundamental to the biology of plant cells. Division by binary fission entails
the coordinated assembly and constriction of four concentric rings, two internal and two …

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Chromoplasts are colored plastids that synthesize and store massive amounts of
carotenoids. Chromoplast number and size define the sink strength for carotenoid …

Chloroplast division in plant cells is accomplished through the coordinated action of the
tubulin‐like FtsZ ring inside the organelle and the dynamin‐like ARC5 ring outside the …

Chloroplasts must divide repeatedly to maintain their population during plant growth and
development. A number of proteins required for chloroplast division have been identified …

Filamentous temperature-sensitive Z (FtsZ) is a tubulin-like GTPase that is highly conserved
in bacteria and plants. It polymerizes into a ring at the division site of bacteria and …

Plastids in plants and algae evolved from the endosymbiotic integration of a cyanobacterium
by a heterotrophic eukaryote. New plastids can only emerge through fission; thus, the …

Storage tissues such as seed endosperm and tubers store starch in the form of granules in
the amyloplast. In the rice (Oryza sativa) endosperm, each amyloplast produces compound …

Chloroplasts evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont [1, 2], and chloroplast division
requires the formation of an FtsZ division ring, which is descended from the cytokinetic …

Chloroplast division is initiated by assembly of a mid-chloroplast FtsZ (Z) ring comprising two
cytoskeletal proteins, FtsZ1 and FtsZ2. The division-site regulators ACCUMULATION AND …