Chloroplast translation is essential for cellular viability and plant development. Its positioning
at the intersection of organellar RNA and protein metabolism makes it a unique point for the …

Following the acquisition of chloroplasts and mitochondria by eukaryotic cells during
endosymbiotic evolution, most of the genes in these organelles were either lost or …

Chloroplast research takes significant advantage of genomics and genome sequencing, and
a new picture is emerging of how the chloroplast functions and communicates with other …

Short-term changes in illumination elicit alterations in thylakoid protein phosphorylation and
reorganization of the photosynthetic machinery. Phosphorylation of LHCII, the light …

Chloroplasts (plastids) possess a genome and their own machinery to express it. Translation
in plastids occurs on bacterial-type 70S ribosomes utilizing a set of tRNAs that is entirely …

The mutants irt1‐1 and irt1‐2 of Arabidopsis thaliana were identified among a collection of T‐
DNA‐tagged lines on the basis of a decrease in the effective quantum yield of photosystem …

Flowering plants control energy allocation to their photosystems in response to light quality
changes. This includes the phosphorylation and migration of light-harvesting complex II …

We describe here the diversity of chloroplast proteins required for embryo development in
Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Interfering with certain chloroplast functions has long …

Chloroplast development is usually regarded as proceeding from proplastids. However,
direct or indirect conversion pathways have been described in the literature, the latter …

Intracellular signaling from plastids to the nucleus, called retrograde signaling, coordinates
the expression of nuclear and plastid genes and is essential for plastid biogenesis and for …