In recent years many advances have been made to obtain insight into chloroplast
biogenesis and development. In plants several plastids types exist such as the proplastid …

Photosystem II (PSII) is a multi-component pigment-protein complex that is responsible for
water splitting, oxygen evolution, and plastoquinone reduction. Components of PSII can be …

Chlorophylls and carotenoids are essential photosynthetic pigments. Plants
spatiotemporally coordinate the needs of chlorophylls and carotenoids for optimal …

Compared with small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) in other organisms, those in plants are
the most abundant and diverse. However, the molecular mechanisms by which sHSPs are …

Chloroplast development and chlorophyll metabolism have been well described in model
plants but not in perennial woody crops. Of particular interest is the interplay between light …

Thylakoids mediate photosynthetic electron transfer and represent one of the most elaborate
energy-transducing membrane systems. Despite our detailed knowledge of its structure and …

Classical DNAJ proteins are co‐chaperones that together with HSP 70s control protein
homeostasis. All three classical types of DNAJ proteins (DNAJA, DNAJB and DNAJC types) …

Plastids provide plants with metabolic pathways that are unique among eukaryotes,
including the methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway for the production of isoprenoids …

Chloroplastic m-type thioredoxins (TRX m) are essential redox regulators in the light
regulation of photosynthetic metabolism. However, recent genetic studies have revealed …

Chloroplasts of higher plants develop from proplastids, which are undifferentiated plastids
that lack photosynthetic (thylakoid) membranes. In flowering plants, the proplastid …