Chloroplasts are essential organelles in plants that contain chlorophylls and facilitate
photosynthesis for growth and development. As photosynthetic efficiency significantly …

Chloroplast biogenesis has been well documented in higher plants, yet the complex
methods used to regulate chloroplast activity under fluctuating environmental conditions are …

Leaf color is a highly important agronomic trait, and mutants with altered leaf coloration can
serve as excellent models for studies on chloroplast development and chlorophyll …

Chlorophyll plays an essential role in photosynthetic light harvesting and energy
transduction in green tissues of higher plants and is closely related to photosynthesis and …

The thylakoid lumen proteins are highly associated with photosynthesis functionally. In this
study, we characterized the OsTLP27 gene from rice (Oryza sativa), which encodes a 27 …

Abstract Background The Class III homeodomain Leu zipper (HD-Zip III) gene family plays
important roles in plant growth and development. Here, we analyze the function of OsHox32 …

Chloroplast signal recognition particle (cpSRP) is composed of cpSRP54 and cpSRP43,
which form a soluble transit complex with light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein in …

Agronomic traits controlling the formation, architecture and physiology of source and sink
organs are main determinants of rice productivity. Semi-dwarf rice varieties with low tiller …

For systematic and genome-wide analyses of rice gene functions, we took advantage of the
full-length cDNA overexpresser (FOX) gene-hunting system and generated> 12 000 …

Chloroplasts develop from proplastids in a process that requires the interplay of nuclear and
chloroplast genomes, but key steps in this developmental process have yet to be elucidated …