Chimeric plants composed of green and albino tissues have great ornamental value. To
unveil the functional genes responsible for albino phenotypes in chimeric plants, we …

Large-scale deletions in the plastid genome of albino plants derived fromanther culture of
japonica rice have in previous studies been detected bySouthern blot analysis. In the …

Photosynthesis, a fundamental process for plant growth and development, is dependent on
chloroplast formation and chlorophyll synthesis. Severe disruption of chloroplast structure …

Genetic material in plants is distributed into nucleus, plastids and mitochondria. Plastid has
a central role of carrying out photosynthesis in plant cells. Plastid transformation is becoming …

Although plastid genomes of flowering plants are typically highly conserved regarding their
size, gene content and order, there are some exceptions. Ericaceae, a large and diverse …

Plastid reverse genetics exploits the predominance of homologous DNA recombination in
this organelle, which allows targeted mutations to be introduced into plastid genes. Most …

Background Plastome mutants are ideal resources for elucidating the functions of plastid
genes. Numerous studies have been conducted for the function of plastid genes in barley …

Inheritable albino mutants are excellent models for exploring the mechanism of chloroplast
biogenesis and development. However, only a few non-lethal albino mutations have been …

During the evolution of the eukaryotic cell, plastids, and mitochondria arose from an
endosymbiotic process, which determined the presence of three genetic compartments into …

Plastid transformation offers several unique advantages compared with nuclear genome
transformation, such as high level of transgene expression within plastids, expressing …