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1. Introduction
2. Chloroplasts define plants
3. Chloroplasts are abundant in leaf cells
4. Chloroplasts in leaf mesophyll cells
5. Electron micrograph of leaf mesophyll cell
6. Chloroplasts can move within the cytoplasm
7. Light stimulated chloroplast movement
8. Chloroplast morphology
9. Chloroplast internal structure
10. The chloroplast envelope membrane
11. Envelope membrane and TIC/TOC complexes
12. Thylakoid membrane structure
13. Thylakoid architecture
14. Thylakoid three dimensional architecture
15. Modelling thylakoid three dimensional architecture
16. How are thylakoid membranes made?
17. Thylakoids derived from inner envelope membrane
18. Chloroplast ribosomes
19. Chloroplast nucleoids
20. Chloroplast plastoglobuli
21. Starch grains
22. Chloroplast development from proplastids
23. Lineage specific chloroplast development
24. Chloroplast development in different cell lines
25. Proplastid structure
26. Proplastid segregation at cytokinesis
27. Chloroplast differentiation requires light
28. Etioplasts
29. Prolamellar body
30. Plastid division
31. Plastids divide by binary fission
32. Plastid dividing ring
33. FtsZ is part of the plastid dividing ring
34. An FtsZ ring constricts during plastid division
35. Plastid differentiation
36. Plastid differentiation pathways
37. Amyloplasts
38. Starch grains within amyloplasts
39. Starch grain structure
40. Amyloplasts function in root gravitropism
41. Chromoplasts
42. Chromoplasts within cells
43. Chromoplasts contain pigmented bodies
44. Leucoplasts and root plastids
45. Chloroplasts differentiate into chromoplasts
46. Green flourescent protein in plastids
47. Stromules
48. Plastids in suspension culture cells
49. Stromules and chromoplasts
50. What do stromules do?
51. The system: tobacco hypocotyls
52. Plastid distribution and stromule formation (1)
53. Plastid distribution and stromule formation (2)
54. Stromule length increases with hypocotyl length
55. Plastid density decreases with hypocotyl length
56. Plastid density decreases with stromule length
57. Giant chloroplasts
58. Giant plastids in tomato fruit
59. Giant plastids can bud!
60. Summary
61. References (1)
62. References (2)

Topics Covered

• Plastid structure
• Proplastid development and differentiation
• Different types of differentiated plastids
• Plastid division
• Control of plastid morphology

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Series:

• Chloroplast

Categories:

• Biochemistry
• Cell Biology
• Plant & Animal Sciences

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• References

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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Reviewed on July 10, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Kevin Pyke has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.