Learning the languages of the chloroplast: retrograde signaling and beyond

KX Chan, SY Phua, P Crisp, R McQuinn… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The chloroplast can act as an environmental sensor, communicating with the cell during
biogenesis and operation to change the expression of thousands of proteins. This process …

Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins in plants

A Barkan, I Small - Annual review of plant biology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins constitute one of the largest protein families in land
plants, with more than 400 members in most species. Over the past decade, much has been …

The translational apparatus of plastids and its role in plant development

N Tiller, R Bock - Molecular plant, 2014 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A sacrifice-for-survival mechanism protects root stem cell niche from chilling stress

JH Hong, M Savina, J Du, A Devendran… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Temperature has a profound influence on plant and animal development, but its effects on
stem cell behavior and activity remain poorly understood. Here, we characterize the …

An uncharacterized apocarotenoid-derived signal generated in ζ-carotene desaturase mutants regulates leaf development and the expression of chloroplast and …

AO Avendaño-Vázquez, E Cordoba, E Llamas… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In addition to acting as photoprotective compounds, carotenoids also serve as precursors in
the biosynthesis of several phytohormones and proposed regulatory signals. Here, we …

Plastids: diving into their diversity, their functions, and their role in plant development

J Sierra, L Escobar-Tovar, P Leon - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plastids are a group of essential, heterogenous semi-autonomous organelles characteristic
of plants that perform photosynthesis and a diversity of metabolic pathways that impact …

Single-cell transcriptomics sheds light on the identity and metabolism of developing leaf cells

R Tenorio Berrío, K Verstaen, N Vandamme… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the main photosynthetic instruments of vascular plants, leaves are crucial and complex
plant organs. A strict organization of leaf mesophyll and epidermal cell layers orchestrates …

Cell type boundaries organize plant development

MP Caggiano, X Yu, N Bhatia, A Larsson, H Ram… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
In plants the dorsoventral boundary of leaves defines an axis of symmetry through the centre
of the organ separating the top (dorsal) and bottom (ventral) tissues. Although the …

The role of carotenoids as a source of retrograde signals: impact on plant development and stress responses

J Sierra, RP McQuinn, P Leon - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Communication from plastids to the nucleus via retrograde signal cascades is essential to
modulate nuclear gene expression, impacting plant development and environmental …

Retrograde signals navigate the path to chloroplast development

T Hernández-Verdeja, Å Strand - Plant physiology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
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