Organelle Genetics in Plants

• Other Authors: Quesada, Víctor (Editor), Robles, Pedro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Salt stress; organellar gene expression (OGE); Arabidopsis; rice; mitochondrial transcription termination factors (mTERFs); pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins; DEAD-box RNA helicases (RHs)-containing proteins; RNA-recognition motifs (RRMs)-containing proteins; SIGMA FACTOR 5; PLASTID-SPECIFIC RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN 2; chloroplast genome; free-standing ORFs; introns; phylogenetic analysis; taxonomic study; Trentepohlia odorata; Trentepohliales; Macrosolen; Macrosolen cochinchinensis; Macrosolen tricolor; Macrosolen bibracteolatus; Santalales; gene loss; phylogenetic relationship; Utricularia amethystina; Lentibulariaceae; chloroplast phylogenomics; organelle genome; carnivorous plants; polymorphic species; intraspecific variation; ndh genes; genome structure; genome evolution; DNA transfer; nuclear integrants of plastid DNA (NUPT); nuclear integrants of mitochondrial DNA (NUMT); legumes; clover; organelle genetics; mitochondria; endosymbiotic gene transfer; gene fission; common bean; Phaseolus vulgaris; mitochondrial genome; comparative genomics; phylogeny; soybean; yellow leaf mutant; photosynthesis; chloroplast RNA editing; chloroplast; SWNTs; morphogenic regulators; CRISPR; protoplast regeneration; chloroplast gene expression; environmental stress response; transcription; RNA metabolism; translation; complex I; intron splicing; maturase; NDH; RNA editing; n/a
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Chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms and mitochondria in a vast majority of eukaryotes, contain part of the genetic material of a eukaryotic cell. The organisation and inheritance patterns of this organellar DNA are quite different to that of nuclear DNA. Present-day chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes contain only a few dozen genes. Nevertheless, these organelles harbor several thousand proteins, the vast majority of them encoded by the nucleus. As a result, the expression of nuclear and organelle genomes has to be very precisely coordinated. The selection of experimental and review papers of this book covers a wide range of topics related to chloroplasts and plant mitochondria research, illustrating recent advances and diverse insights into the field of organelle genetics in plants. These works represent some of the latest research on the genetics, genomics, and biotechnology of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts, and they are of significant broad interest for the community of plant scientists, especially for those working in the subjects related to organelle genetics