Seeing is believing: the three‐way division of labor in the photosynthetic thylakoid membrane

Conversion of photosynthetically derived energy in plants occurs within the highly specialized thylakoid membrane system of the chloroplast – a structure into which fascinating new insights have recently been afforded via developments in electron microscopy (Engel et al., 2015). The stacking of part of the thylakoid membrane generates two main sub-compartments, the stacked grana core and the unstacked stroma lamellae as well as the postulated...