
What plant mitochondria eat: The route of pyruvate to respiration in Arabidopsis
Le et al. demonstrate that mitochondria get pyruvate three different ways.
Plant Cell
By X.H. Le, C.P. Lee and A.H. Millar
The University of Western Australia
Perth, Australia
Background: Plants photosynthesise and make starch in the day so that at night they can extract energy from…