Extant land plants consist of two deeply divergent groups, tracheophytes and bryophytes,
which shared a common ancestor some 500 million years ago. While information about …

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 …

Photosynthesis is the energetic basis for most life on Earth, and in plants it operates inside
double membrane–bound organelles called chloroplasts. The photosynthetic apparatus …

Ginkgo biloba is grown worldwide as an ornamental plant for its golden leaf color. However,
the regulatory mechanism of leaf coloration in G. biloba remains unclear. Here, we …

Abstract Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT)-III proteins mediate
membrane remodeling and the release of endosomal intraluminal vesicles into …

Chloroplast biogenesis has been well documented in higher plants, yet the complex
methods used to regulate chloroplast activity under fluctuating environmental conditions are …

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Plastids in plants are assumed to have evolved from cyanobacteria as they have maintained
several bacterial features. Recently, peptidoglycans, as bacterial cell wall components, have …

FtsZ is a key cytoskeletal component of the chloroplast division machinery that arose from
the related cell division FtsZ in the cyanobacterial ancestor of chloroplasts. FtsZ is widely …

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