Vacuoles in Wild-Type and Mutant Plant Cells (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Vacuoles in Wild-Type and Mutant Plant Cells

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This is a fluorescence microscopy image of a normal, "wild-type" (left) and a mutant (right) cell in which the vacuole membrane is marked in green. Comparing wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana to a mutant, researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen were able to show for the first time that formation of functional vacuoles depends on a specific "splitting protein."

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Source: Claus Schwechheimer and Erika Isono, TU Muenchen

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