The genomes in the two energy-converting organelles of plant cells, chloroplasts and
mitochondria, contain numerous 'errors' that are corrected at the level of RNA transcript …

Communication between cellular compartments is vital for development and environmental
adaptation. Signals emanating from organelles, so-called retrograde signals, coordinate …

Plants evolved efficient multifaceted acclimation strategies to cope with low temperatures.
Chloroplasts respond to temperature stimuli and participate in temperature sensing and …

Plant organelles arose from two independent endosymbiosis events. Throughout
evolutionary history, tight control of chloroplasts and mitochondria has been gained by the …

The analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of Isoetes engelmannii as a first representative of the
lycophytes recently revealed very small introns and indications for extremely frequent RNA …

Thioredoxins (TRXs) occur in plant chloroplasts as complex disulphide oxidoreductases.
Although many biological processes are regulated by thioredoxins, the regulatory …

Background Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing is a highly conserved process that post-
transcriptionally modifies mRNA, generating proteomic diversity, particularly within the …

The complete nucleotide sequence of the chloroplast genome of sugarcane (Saccharum
officinarum) was determined. It consists of 141,182 base-pairs (bp), containing a pair of …

Although RNA-Seq has revolutionized transcript analysis, organellar transcriptomes are
rarely assessed even when present in published datasets. Here, we describe the …

Background The gene expression system of chloroplasts is far more complex than that of
their cyanobacterial progenitor. This gain in complexity affects in particular RNA metabolism …