Cytogenomic analyses reveal the structural plasticity of the chloroplast genome in higher plants

JW Lilly, MJ Havey, SA Jackson, J Jiang - The Plant Cell, 2001 - academic.oup.com
A DNA fiber-based fluorescence in situ hybridization (fiber-FISH) technique was developed
to analyze the structure and organization of a large number of intact chloroplast DNA …

Most chloroplast DNA of maize seedlings in linear molecules with defined ends and branched forms

DJ Oldenburg, AJ Bendich - Journal of molecular biology, 2004 - Elsevier
We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, restriction fragment mapping, and fluorescence
microscopy of individual DNA molecules to analyze the structure of chloroplast DNA …

Changes in chloroplast DNA during development in tobacco, Medicago truncatula, pea, and maize

JM Shaver, DJ Oldenburg, AJ Bendich - Planta, 2006 - Springer
We examined the DNA from chloroplasts obtained from young and fully expanded leaves of
tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), Medicago truncatula, pea (Pisum sativum L.), and maize …

The Structure of Chloroplast DNA Molecules and the Effects of Light on the Amount of Chloroplast DNA during Development in Medicago truncatula

JM Shaver, DJ Oldenburg, AJ Bendich - Plant Physiology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and restriction fragment mapping to analyze the
structure of Medicago truncatula chloroplast DNA (cpDNA). We find most cpDNA in genome …

[HTML][HTML] A multiple-method approach reveals a declining amount of chloroplast DNA during development in Arabidopsis

BA Rowan, DJ Oldenburg, AJ Bendich - BMC Plant Biology, 2009 - Springer
Background A decline in chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) during leaf maturity has been reported
previously for eight plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana. Recent studies, however …

Chloroplast DNA dynamics: copy number, quality control and degradation

W Sakamoto, T Takami - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Endosymbiotically originated chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) encodes part of the genetic
information needed to fulfill chloroplast function, including fundamental processes such as …

Chloroplast genomes of plants.

LA Raubeson, RK Jansen - Plant diversity and evolution …, 2005 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Plant diversity and evolution: genotypic and phenotypic variation in higher plants: Chloroplast
genomes of plants. Page 1 4 Chloroplast genomes of plants Linda A. Raubeson1 and Robert …

Chloroplast DNA and molecular phylogeny

JD Palmer - Bioessays, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
The small, relatively constant size and conservative evolution of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA)
make it an ideal molecule for tracing the evolutionary history of plant species. At lower …

Rates and patterns of chloroplast DNA evolution.

MT Clegg, BS Gaut, GH Learn Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
The chloroplast genome (cpDNA) of plants has been a focus of research in plant molecular
evolution and systematics. Several features of this genome have facilitated molecular …

Long-reads reveal that the chloroplast genome exists in two distinct versions in most plants

W Wang, R Lanfear - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The chloroplast genome usually has a quadripartite structure consisting of a large single
copy region and a small single copy region separated by two long inverted repeats. It has …