“…2) (Dörmann et al, 1995;Jones et al, 1995). In Arabidopsis, the transmembrane proteins fatty acyl export 1-4 (FAX1-4) mediate fatty acid export from the plastid, but the precise mechanism by which this transport occurs is unknown (Li et al, 2015;Tian et al, 2019;Bugaeva et al, 2023). Traditional biological models hold that that free fatty acids are rapidly re-activated to acyl-CoA thioesters at the plastid outer envelope by an acyl-CoA synthetase, and are then mostly transported to the ER.…”