A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...

These stepwise changes allowed VAMP72 to evolve into VAMP727, supporting the development of the efficient vacuolar transport system found in seed plants. Credit: Takashi Ueda and Masaru Fujimoto Seed ...

Plants rely on an intricate network of transport pathways to distribute photoassimilates from sites of synthesis (sources) to sites of utilisation or storage (sinks). Sucrose, the principal transport ...

Plants produce all the amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialized cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...