Shogo Oshima

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#357Chloroplast Streaming

A brightfield plant cell walled in tan cellulose, its bright-green chloroplasts swept along the cortex in cytoplasmic streaming — a rounded-rectangle current that carries the grana-flecked discs around the big central vacuole in one steady circuit. The pointer sets the light direction and the chloroplasts crowd toward it (photorelocation), scroll drives the streaming speed, and a press recruits more chloroplasts into the flow.