Vacuolar Compartments (2000, Hardcover)

Research into plant vacuoles has, over the last 5 years or so, been injected with new data which have already radically changed our concept of the vacuolar compartment in plant cells. The "multi-vacuole" hypothesis has considerable repercussions for protein trafficking, making the plant cell a considerably more complex system to work with than in eukaryotes. At the same time, there are increasing numbers of examples that underline a high degree of homology among the eukaryotes in terms of transport to the lysosomal/vacuolar compartments. This timely volume provides a broad overview of our current understanding of the roles of vacuolar compartments in plant cells.