Collapsed Chloroplasts are Targeted in Self-Eating Process (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Collapsed Chloroplasts are Targeted in Self-Eating Process

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Fluorescent microscopic images for chlorophagy. The left image is from a non-treated leaf. The right image shows red spherical bodies of chloroplasts that are removed and mobilized to the vacuole by chlorophagy.

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Masanori Izumi

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