Plant Mitochondria Moving Around the Cell (VIDEO)

University of Tokyo

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The plant mitochondria rapidly moving around the cell (Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cell) in this video were artificially made to glow green, but are shown at their actual speed. Plant mitochondria move about 10 times faster than mammalian or yeast mitochondria. One researcher at the University of Tokyo says the plant mitochondrial genome 'has so many enigmas.' Despite the complexity, researchers in Japan recently edited plant mitochondria DNA for the first time.

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Video by Shin-ichi Arimura, CC-BY

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