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Diversification of Plastid Structure and Function in Land Plants

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Plastids represent a largely diverse group of organelles in plant and algal cells that have several common features but also a broad spectrum of morphological, ultrastructural, biochemical, and physiological differences. Plastids and their structural and metabolic diversity significantly contribute to the functionality and developmental flexibility of the plant body throughout its lifetime. In addition to the multiple roles of given plastid types, this diversity is accomplished in some cases by interconversions between different plastids as a consequence of developmental and environmental signals that regulate plastid differentiation and specialization. In addition to basic plastid structural features, the most important plastid types, the newly characterized peculiar plastids, and future perspectives in plastid biology are also provided in this chapter.

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This chapter is dedicated to Professor Győző Garab (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The authors would like to thank Johanna Lethin for her contribution to the compilation of the first edition of this chapter. The authors are grateful to Csilla Jónás for transmission electron microscopic sample preparation and to Jean-Marc Brillouet (SupAgro, Montpellier, France) for providing micrographs about tannoplast and phenyloplast. This work was supported by Carl Tryggers Foundation 19:22 and the Swedish Research Council 2021-04265 (to H.A.), the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the OTKA FK 124748, and the ÚNKP-22-5 and ÚNKP-23-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (to K.S.).

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Aronsson, H., Solymosi, K. (2024). Diversification of Plastid Structure and Function in Land Plants. In: Maréchal, E. (eds) Plastids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2776. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3726-5_4

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