and interpret experiments carefully on the plant pathway before rushing into assigning function to structures and gene products simply because they have been described in the yeast and mammalian literature.
In this review some of the more recent data exploring the dynamics and functions of the higher plant Golgi apparatus and the putative functions of the structural and regulatory proteins that we now know to be associated with the membrane of the cisternal stacks will be discussed, along with some of the controversies surrounding this enigmatic organelle.