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

Chloroplast RNA Metabolism

(2010) David B. Stern et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Evolution of plant phage-type RNA polymerases: the genome of the basal angiosperm Nuphar advena encodes two mitochondrial and one plastid phage-type RNA polymerases

(2010) Chang Yin et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages

(2010) Kenneth G Karol et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chloroplast genome sequence of the moss Tortula ruralis: gene content, polymorphism, and structural arrangement relative to other green plant chloroplast genomes

(2010) Melvin J Oliver et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Identification of new polymorphic regions and differentiation of cultivated olives (Olea europaea L.) through plastome sequence comparison

(2010) Roberto Mariotti et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Complete chloroplast genome of Oncidium Gower Ramsey and evaluation of molecular markers for identification and breeding in Oncidiinae

(2010) Fu-Hui Wu et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

The evolution of chloroplast genome structure in ferns

(2010) Paul G. Wolf et al.   GENOME

Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes

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

RecA maintains the integrity of chloroplast DNA molecules in Arabidopsis

(2010) Beth A. Rowan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Why does biparental plastid inheritance revive in angiosperms?

(2010) Quan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

The Position of Gnetales among Seed Plants: Overcoming Pitfalls of Chloroplast Phylogenomics

(2010) B. Zhong et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability

(2010) Alexandre Maréchal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Y3IP1, a Nucleus-Encoded Thylakoid Protein, Cooperates with the Plastid-Encoded Ycf3 Protein in Photosystem I Assembly of Tobacco and Arabidopsis

(2010) C. A. Albus et al.   PLANT CELL

Plastid ndh genes in plant evolution

(2010) Mercedes Martín et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Plastid genome sequencing, comparative genomics, and phylogenomics: Current status and prospects

(2010) Lei GAO et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Transposed Genes in Arabidopsis Are Often Associated with Flanking Repeats

(2010) Margaret R. Woodhouse et al.   PLoS Genetics

Universal primers for the amplification of the plastid trnK/matK region in land plants

(2009) Dietmar Quandt et al.   ANALES DEL JARDIN BOTANICO DE MADRID

Complete chloroplast genome sequence of a tree fern Alsophila spinulosa: insights into evolutionary changes in fern chloroplast genomes

(2009) Lei Gao et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Mungbean (Vigna radiata) Determined by High-throughput Pyrosequencing: Structural Organization and Phylogenetic Relationships

(2009) S. Tangphatsornruang et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Conservation of selection on matK following an ancient loss of its flanking intron

(2009) Aaron M. Duffy et al.   GENE

Structure of thec14Rotor Ring of the Proton Translocating Chloroplast ATP Synthase

(2009) Melanie Vollmar et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

PSRP1 Is Not a Ribosomal Protein, but a Ribosome-binding Factor That Is Recycled by the Ribosome-recycling Factor (RRF) and Elongation Factor G (EF-G)

(2009) Manjuli R. Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Biogenesis of cytochromeb6in photosynthetic membranes

(2009) Denis Saint-Marcoux et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

On the Brink of Holoparasitism: Plastome Evolution in Dwarf Mistletoes (Arceuthobium, Viscaceae)

(2009) Daniel L. Nickrent et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Evolution of reduced and compact chloroplast genomes (cpDNAs) in gnetophytes: Selection toward a lower-cost strategy

(2009) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A trans -splicing group I intron and tRNA-hyperediting in the mitochondrial genome of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii

(2009) Felix Grewe et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Biochemical and Structural Studies of the Large Ycf4-Photosystem I Assembly Complex of the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2009) S.-i. Ozawa et al.   PLANT CELL

Parallel Loss of Plastid Introns and Their Maturase in the Genus Cuscuta

(2009) Joel R. McNeal et al.   PLoS One

Whirly proteins maintain plastid genome stability in Arabidopsis

(2009) A. Marechal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extensive homologous recombination between introduced and native regulatory plastid DNA elements in transplastomic plants

(2009) Benjamin N. Gray et al.   TRANSGENIC RESEARCH

Instability of Plastid DNA in the Nuclear Genome

(2009) Anna E. Sheppard et al.   PLoS Genetics

The complete plastid genome sequence of Welwitschia mirabilis: an unusually compact plastome with accelerated divergence rates

(2008) Skip R McCoy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Dynamics and evolution of the inverted repeat-large single copy junctions in the chloroplast genomes of monocots

(2008) Rui-Jiang Wang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complete nucleotide sequence of the Cryptomeria japonica D. Don. chloroplast genome and comparative chloroplast genomics: diversified genomic structure of coniferous species

(2008) Tomonori Hirao et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

From chloroplasts to “cryptic” plastids: evolution of plastid genomes in parasitic plants

(2008) Kirsten Krause   CURRENT GENETICS

Distribution and Evolution of Pseudogenes, Gene Losses, and a Gene Rearrangement in the Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Liverwort, Aneura mirabilis (Metzgeriales, Jungermanniopsida)

(2008) Norman J. Wickett et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

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

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

Superwobbling facilitates translation with reduced tRNA sets

(2008) Marcelo Rogalski et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The complete nucleotide sequences of the five genetically distinct plastid genomes of Oenothera , subsection Oenothera : I. Sequence evaluation and plastome evolution †

(2008) Stephan Greiner et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structure-Function of the Cytochromeb6fComplex†

(2008) D. Baniulis et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Chlamydomonas chloroplasts can use short dispersed repeats and multiple pathways to repair a double-strand break in the genome

(2008) Obed W. Odom et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Cloning and expression of a plastid-encoded subunit, beta-carboxyltransferase gene (accD) and a nuclear-encoded subunit, biotin carboxylase of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

(2008) Alisa Nakkaew et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

The chloroplast sulfate transport system in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2008) Pia Lindberg et al.   PLANTA

Functional Gene Losses Occur with Minimal Size Reduction in the Plastid Genome of the Parasitic Liverwort Aneura mirabilis

(2007) N. J. Wickett et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION