Abstract
Since plants spread their roots in the ground, they must survive in a given environment. To adapt the environment, they positively utilize the environmental changes in the life cycle as important signals that they are necessary for their survival. Recent studies showed that plant cells could induce, degenerate and differentiate their organelles to adapt the environmental changes. The flexibility of the plant organelles is the basic of the strategy for the environmental adaptation in plants. In this talk, I introduce our recent studies on plant peroxisomes to clarify the molecular mechanisms underlying induction, differentiation, and interaction of organelles, and to understand integrated function of individual plant through the organelle dynamics. We expect that this will provide molecular characteristics of plant life, and contribute perspective for increase of food production, production of functional foods and phytoremediation.
