These stepwise changes allowed VAMP72 to evolve into VAMP727, supporting the development of the efficient vacuolar transport system found in seed plants. Credit: Takashi Ueda and Masaru Fujimoto Seed ...

Plants produce all the amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialized cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

Researchers have just elucidated structures of a sugar transport protein that drives transport of sugar in plants. The study provides a comprehensive insight into sugar uptake into plant organs such ...

SWEET transporters, recently identified as key sugar transporters, play crucial roles in plant developmental and physiological processes, with established functions in model plants like Arabidopsis.

A tiny region at the root tip has been found to be responsible for orchestrating the growth and development of the complex network of vascular tissues that transport sugars through plant roots. A tiny ...