Hiruni N. Weerasooriya

Plant organelle division orchestrated by the mosaic machinery of endosymbiotic relics and eukaryotic host factors.

Plastids retain the imprint of their cyanobacterial ancestry by dividing primarily through binary fission. This process is executed by elaborate division machinery that has continued to evolve since endosymbiosis. Early identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis accumulation and replication of chloroplasts...