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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 6: Active Matter 1 (joint session BP/CPP/DY)

CPP 6.2: Talk

Monday, September 5, 2022, 11:00–11:15, H16

Chloroplasts in dark-adapted plants show active glassy behavior — •Nico Schramma, Cintia Perugachi Israëls, and Mazi Jalaal — University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Photosynthesis in plants is one of the main drivers for the survival of whole ecosystems on earth. To guarantee the efficiency of this process, plants have to actively adapt to ever-changing light conditions. On large time scales plants can grow towards the light. However, this process is too slow to adapt towards transient stimuli. To do this plants can re-arrange the intracellular structure by the active motion of chloroplasts on short timescales. These organelles are confined between the cell membrane and vacuole and can move inside the cytoplasm via actin polymerization forces. Remarkably, the simple - yet elegant - interplay of light-sensing and active forces leads to various modes of collective motion. Here, we show that the chloroplasts under dark conditions are densely packed systems, driven by a-thermal noise and can exhibit active glassy motion. Furthermore, we aim to establish chloroplast motion as a new framework to study the dynamics of light-controlled dense biological systems featuring intriguing dynamic phase transitions.