Chloroplasts play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth. The availability of over 800
sequenced chloroplast genomes from a variety of land plants has enhanced our …

Chloroplasts are the metabolically active, semi-autonomous organelles found in plants,
algae and cyanobacteria. Their main function is to carry out the photosynthesis process …

This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture
in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and …

Chloroplast DNA sequences are a primary source of data for plant molecular systematic
studies. A few key papers have provided the molecular systematics community with …

Angiosperms are the largest and most successful clade of land plants with> 250,000 species
distributed in nearly every terrestrial habitat. Many phylogenetic studies have been based on …

Current proposals to improve photosynthesis to meet our energy and food needs include the
following:(1) improving the performance of Rubisco;(2) decreasing photorespiration by …

The field of comparative plastid genomics has burgeoned during the past decade, largely
due to the availability of rapid, less expensive genome sequencing technologies. Currently …

Iron is the quantitatively most important trace metal involved in thylakoid reactions of all
oxygenic organisms since linear (= non-cyclic) electron flow from H 2 O to NADP+ involves …

Abstract Background Polystachya Hook. is a large pantropical orchid genus (c. 240 species)
distributed in Africa, southern Asia and the Americas, with the center of diversity in Africa …

The light reactions in photosynthesis drive both linear and cyclic electron transport around
photosystem I (PSI). Linear electron transport generates both ATP and NADPH, whereas PSI …