Chang-Yuan Zhu

OsToc159 is essential for amyloplast development and starch granule initiation in rice endosperm.

In cereal endosperm, starch is biosynthesized within specialized plastids termed amyloplasts through the coordinated activity of a suite of enzymes. The development of amyloplasts requires the import of nuclear-encoded preproteins from the cytosol via the translocon. However, little is known about how the translocon in...