Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ... which are equivalent in function to lysosomes in mammalian cells (Figure 1). A special feature of guard cells is that they can increase or decrease ...

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 ...

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant ... When they're well-watered, the vacuoles are firm. But when the plant starts to lose water, we start to see the plants going ...

Plant cells also contain large vacuoles and chloroplasts. Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic ...

Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ... which are equivalent in function to lysosomes in mammalian cells (Figure 1). A special feature of guard cells is that they can increase or decrease ...

This protein storage function is unique to plant vacuoles and does not occur in other ... and protein-protein interactions within cells. Associate Professor Fujimoto, first author of the study ...