title: Vacuoles and prevacuolar compartments.
abstract: Plant vacuoles are complex and dynamic organelles. Important advances have been made in our understanding of the transporters present in the tonoplast and of the molecular interactions that allow targeting to vacuoles. Despite these advances, markers that permit vacuoles to be defined unambiguously have not yet been identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. pcbethke@nature.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Bethke
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000378:metabolism*