Unraveling the Interactions between Plants, Microbes, and Organelles through Imaging

Abstract

In plant cells, organelles actively interact with each other. Organelles such as plastids and mitochondria originally evolved through the symbiosis of different organisms, and their dynamics are symbolic of the interactions between organisms. Plants still face daily attacks from microorganisms, but at the same time, various plant-microbe interactions, such as symbiotic relationships, are taking place. Recent imaging techniques have made it possible to capture such interactions in situ. At this symposium, held at the 88^th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan, speakers conducting research on organelle-organelle and microbe-plant interactions using the latest imaging techniques of optical and electron microscopy gave lectures. By introducing examples of their analyses, discussions were held from a new perspective of imaging "interactions."