[Shuen-Fang Lo] OsHAP3H Regulates Chloroplast Number and Morphology in Rice Bundle Sheath Cells
Assistant Professor Shuen-Fang Lo and the international C4 rice research team jointly discovered that OsHAP3H regulates chloroplast occupancy in rice bundle sheath cells and affects chloroplast number and size distribution. This study also developed Chloro-Count, an AI deep learning–based tool for quantitative 2D and 3D analysis of chloroplasts within cells, improving the precision of chloroplast phenotyping and enabling comparison of the differences and limitations between 2D and 3D quantification methods. The research was published in New Phytologist (Lambret Frotte et al., 2025).
Article source: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20332