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Introduction

Plants are sessile organisms, but their cells conceal extensive motion that is visible by contrast microscopy. Depending on cell size, shape, function, and growth stage, this motion can be manifested as trafficking of organelles and vesicles in a variety of patterns. The first account of the circular intracellular motion was described in 1774 by an Italian botanist Bonaventura Corti in the green alga Chara. In the rapidly growing, elongated pollen tubes and root hairs of the flowering plants, the endomembrane bodies move in a fountain-like pattern, whereas more localized streaming along the linear paths is typical of many fully grown plant cells. A breakthrough in tracing the trafficking patterns of the specific organelles was achieved in the 1990s when the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and other protein-based fluorophores visible in the live cells became available. Using a Golgi stack-targeted marker fused with GFP, it was found that far from streaming in...

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  1. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 2082, Corvallis, OR, 97331-2902, USA

    Valerian V. Dolja

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  1. Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

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Dolja, V.V. (2014). Myosin Motors. In: Assmann, S., Liu, B. (eds) Cell Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7881-2_17-1

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