Plant specific
organelles that perform essential degradation of
oil reserves by beta-
oxidation and the
glyoxylate cycle. It uses its own special enzymes isocitrate
lyase(IL) and malate
synthase(MS) to convert acetyl
CoA to succinate.
Glyoxysomes and peroxisomes are thought to be the same, just tailored for different functions. The necessary enzymes are transported in when needed, or degraded when unnecessary. Whether they were origionally separate and have merged in function by outsourcing thier proteins to the cell - or one is an adaption of the other is unknown.