Evolutionary and biotechnology implications of plastid genome variation in the inverted-repeat-lacking clade of legumes

Frequency of intron loss correlates with processed pseudogene abundance: a novel strategy to test the reverse transcriptase model of intron loss

(2013) Tao Zhu et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Comparative analyses of two Geraniaceae transcriptomes using next-generation sequencing

(2013) Jin Zhang et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Reverse Transcription of Spliced psbA mRNA in Chlamydomonas spp. and Its Possible Role in Evolutionary Intron Loss

(2013) Obed W. Odom et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Potential Functional Replacement of the Plastidic Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Subunit (accD) Gene by Recent Transfers to the Nucleus in Some Angiosperm Lineages

(2013) M. Rousseau-Gueutin et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Complete Plastid Genome Sequence of Madagascar Periwinkle Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don: Plastid Genome Evolution, Molecular Marker Identification, and Phylogenetic Implications in Asterids

(2013) Chuan Ku et al.   PLoS One

Uncovering the Protein Translocon at the Chloroplast Inner Envelope Membrane

(2013) S. Kikuchi et al.   SCIENCE

Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled early-branching lineages

(2012) Domingos Cardoso et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene

(2012) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Transformation of alfalfa chloroplasts and expression of green fluorescent protein in a forage crop

(2011) Zhengyi Wei et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of Different Inverted Repeat Copies from the Chloroplast Genomes of Pinaceae and Cupressophytes and Influence of Heterotachy on the Evaluation of Gymnosperm Phylogeny

(2011) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phytozome: a comparative platform for green plant genomics

(2011) David M. Goodstein et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): improved gene annotation and new tools

(2011) Philippe Lamesch et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Recent loss of plastid-encoded ndh genes within Erodium (Geraniaceae)

(2011) J. Chris Blazier et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function

(2011) Susann Wicke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plastid Biotechnology: Food, Fuel, and Medicine for the 21st Century

(2011) P. Maliga et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes

(2010) A. M. Magee et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Extreme Reconfiguration of Plastid Genomes in the Angiosperm Family Geraniaceae: Rearrangements, Repeats, and Codon Usage

(2010) M. M. Guisinger et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

An organellar maturase associates with multiple group II introns

(2010) R. Zoschke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

(2009) Ben Langmead et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

GenomeVx: simple web-based creation of editable circular chromosome maps

(2008) G. C. Conant et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Extensive Rearrangements in the Chloroplast Genome of Trachelium caeruleum Are Associated with Repeats and tRNA Genes

(2008) Rosemarie C. Haberle et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Extensive Reorganization of the Plastid Genome of Trifolium subterraneum (Fabaceae) Is Associated with Numerous Repeated Sequences and Novel DNA Insertions

(2008) Zhengqiu Cai et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Substitution of the Gene for Chloroplast RPS16 Was Assisted by Generation of a Dual Targeting Signal

(2008) M. Ueda et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Complete plastid genome sequence of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and the phylogenetic distribution of rps12 and clpP intron losses among legumes (Leguminosae)

(2008) Robert K. Jansen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A protocol for expression of foreign genes in chloroplasts

(2008) Dheeraj Verma et al.   Nature Protocols

CLB19, a pentatricopeptide repeat protein required for editing ofrpoAandclpPchloroplast transcripts

(2008) Anne-Laure Chateigner-Boutin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Whole-Gene Positive Selection, Elevated Synonymous Substitution Rates, Duplication, and Indel Evolution of the Chloroplast clpP1 Gene

(2008) Per Erixon et al.   PLoS One