A tobacco chloroplast hypothetical open reading frame 4 (YCF4) has been reported as a
non-essential assembly factor for photosynthesis based on an incomplete knockout of YCF4 …

Hypothetical chloroplast reading frame 5 (ycf 5) is encoded by the chloroplast genome and
potentially specifies a protein of 313 amino acids in tobacco. A northern blot analysis …

Chlorophyll plays a vital role in harvesting light and turning it into chemical energy. In this
study, we isolated and characterized a chlorophyll-deficient mutant, which we named cs3 …

Photosystem biogenesis in the thylakoid membrane is a highly complicated process that
requires the coordinated assembly of nucleus-encoded and chloroplast-encoded protein …

This response to a recent Commentary article by de Vries et al. highlights critical errors in
the annotation and identification of Ycf1 homologs in the sequenced chloroplast genomes …

Light signals promote photomorphogenesis and photosynthesis, allowing plants to establish
photoautotrophic growth. Chloroplasts are organelles responsible for photosynthesis in …

A small conserved open reading frame in the plastid genome, ycf9, encodes a putative
membrane protein of 62 amino acids. To determine the function of this reading frame we …

Plant chloroplast genes are usually co-transcribed while its posttranscriptional splicing is
fairly complex and remains largely unsolved. On basis of sequencing the three complete …

There are still some open reading frames, orfs, with unknown function in the higher plant
chloroplast genome. Of these conserved orfs, designated as ycfs (hypothetical chloroplast …

Chlorophyll is the main photosynthetic pigment and is crucial for plant photosynthesis. Leaf
color mutants are widely used to identify genes involved in the synthesis or metabolism of …