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Diversity and Plasticity of Plastids 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 differences in respect of how they look (color, size, and ultrastructure), and what their specific function and molecular composition is. 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.

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Acknowledgments

This chapter is dedicated to Professor Győző Garab (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary) on the occasion of his 70th birthday. 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 (to H.A.), and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the ÚNKP-17-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities (to K.S.).

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Solymosi, K., Lethin, J., Aronsson, H. (2018). Diversity and Plasticity of Plastids in Land Plants. In: Maréchal, E. (eds) Plastids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1829. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_4

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