FEBS Letters
Volume 583, Issue 23 , Pages 3752-3757, 3 December 2009

The plant Golgi apparatus: Last 10 years of answered and open questions

Edited by Antonella De Matteis

Michigan State University, DOE Plant Research Laboratory, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Received 4 June 2009; received in revised form 1 September 2009; accepted 28 September 2009. published online 01 October 2009.

Abstract 

Plant Golgi bodies possess unique morphological and functional characteristics that are key to several biological and biotechnological processes, such as transport of the cell’s building blocks to energy-rich compartments, including chloroplasts, storage vacuoles and a cellulosic cell wall. During the last decade it has become apparent that the plant Golgi apparatus has features that are remarkably different from other systems. Here we summarize the most recent findings on this organelle and we highlight pressing questions that are likely to drive the next 10 years of research on the plant Golgi apparatus.

Keywords: Golgi, Endoplasmic reticulum, ER export site, Golgin

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PII: S0014-5793(09)00746-7

doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2009.09.046

FEBS Letters
Volume 583, Issue 23 , Pages 3752-3757, 3 December 2009

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