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Probing and tracking organelles in living plant cells

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Intracellular organelle movements and positioning play pivotal roles in enabling plants to proliferate life efficiently and to survive diverse environmental stresses. The elaborate dissection of organelle dynamics and their underlying mechanisms (e.g., the role of the cytoskeleton in organelle movements) largely depends on the advancement and efficiency of organelle tracking systems. Here, we provide an overview of some recently developed tools for labeling and tracking organelle dynamics in living plant cells.

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This work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (30730009, 31000092), Ministry of Agriculture of China (2008ZX08002-003, 2009ZX08009-011B and 2009ZX08009-095B), CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams (20090491019), and Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2011CB809103).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Tong Chen, Xiaohua Wang, Maozhong Zheng & Jinxing Lin

  2. Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D-53115, Bonn, Germany

    Daniel von Wangenheim

  3. Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademicka 2, SK-95007, Nitra, Slovak Republic

    Jozef Šamaj

  4. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Jozef Šamaj

  5. College of Agriculture, Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shanxi, China

    Wanquan Ji

  6. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China

    Jinxing Lin

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Chen, T., Wang, X., von Wangenheim, D. et al. Probing and tracking organelles in living plant cells. Protoplasma 249 (Suppl 2), 157–167 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-011-0364-4

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