Recent advances in the study of chloroplast gene expression and its evolution

Chloroplasts are semiautonomous organelles which possess their own genome and gene expression system. However, extant chloroplasts contain only limited coding information, and are dependent on a large number of nucleus-encoded proteins. During plant evolution, chloroplasts have lost most of the prok...

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Main Authors: Yusuke eYagi, Takashi eShiina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
PEP
NEP
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2014.00061/full