High temperature, a major abiotic stress, significantly affects the yield and quality of crops in
many parts of the world. Components of the photosynthetic apparatus are highly susceptible …

Background Ribosomes responsible for transcription and translation of plastid-encoded
proteins in chloroplasts are essential for chloroplast development and plant growth …

Chloroplasts play an essential role in plant growth and development, and cold conditions
affect chloroplast development. Although many genes or regulators involved in chloroplast …

Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins, characterized by tandem arrays of a 35 amino acid
motif, have been suggested to play central and broad roles in modulating the expression of …

In land plants, chloroplast transcripts undergo post-transcriptional modifications, including
splicing, editing, trimming, etc., before translation, and a set of nuclear-encoded proteins …

Albino mutants are useful genetic resource for studying chlorophyll biosynthesis and
chloroplast development and cloning genes involved in these processes in plants. Here we …

Heat stress commonly leads to inhibition of photosynthesis in higher plants. The
transcriptional induction of heat stress-responsive genes represents the first line of inducible …

Abstract Main conclusion Young Seedling Stripe1 (YSS1) was characterized as an important
regulator of plastid-encoded plastid RNA polymerase (PEP) activity essential for chloroplast …

Background Photosynthetic systems are known to be sensitive to high temperature stress.
To maintain a relatively “normal” level of photosynthetic activities, plants employ a variety of …

The plastid-encoded RNA polymerase (PEP) plays an important role in the transcription
machinery of mature chloroplasts, yet details of its function remain elusive in rice. Here, we …