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 ...

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 ...

Vacuoles are far from empty—they are vital organelles that manage storage, detoxification, and structural integrity in cells.

Researchers have shown for the first time that a specific protein plays an indispensable role in the formation of vacuoles, by far the largest organelles in plant cells. Enveloped by a membrane, ...

These images, taken using a confocal microscope at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, show lipid droplets (green) enclosed within plant cell vacuoles (red-labeled membranes). The ...

We measured the osmotic water permeability (Pos) of vacuoles isolated from onion (Allium cepa L.), rape (Brassica napus L.), petunia (Petunia hybrida Hook.) and red beet (Beta vulgaris L.). For all ...

Being a segregase, it’s the job of valosin-containing protein (VCP) to straighten out a myriad of poorly folded proteins. We can now add tau to that list. In a paper published in Science on October 1, ...

Despite being recognized for over a century, the regulatory mechanism, composition, and functions of the NoV are still not well understood. A team led by Prof. GUANG Shouhong and Prof. FENG Xuezhu ...