Mills, Ronald2020-07-092020-07-091990Mills, W. R., S. F. Capo, S. A. Bergh, and C. B. Lassiter. 1990. Developmental variation in aspartate-family amino acid biosynthesis by isolated chloroplasts. In: M. Baltscheffsky, ed., Current Research in Photosynthesis. Vol. IV, pp. 271-274, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.https://hdl.handle.net/10657.1/2406In the last decade, it has become clear that the chloroplast is the main site, if not the sole site, for the biosynthesis of the nutritionally essential aspartate-derived amino acids (Fig. 1) in plant leaves [1,2]. For example, isolated intact chloroplasts carry out the light-driven synthesis of lysine, threonine, and isoleucine from labeled aspartic acid and malic acid [3]. This can be considered a photosynthetic process since ATP and NADPH produced in light are thought to be used directly (Fig. 1) to drive the synthetic reactions [3].en-USAmino Acid Synthesis, Amino Acid Production, Intact Chloroplast, Developmental Variation, Aspartate KinaseArticle