Update: Plant energy expenses: How to stretch the C budget (Plant Physiol)
Plant Science Research WeeklyBalancing the books means making sure that expenses don’t exceed income. In terms of a plant’s energy budget, most of the input comes from carbon fixed during photosynthesis. The output is much more diverse. Some fixed carbon is used for growth and stored in seeds, and some is respired to release…
What plant mitochondria eat: The route of pyruvate to respiration in Arabidopsis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellLe 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…