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Plastid Chromosomes from Vascular Plants—Genes

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Cell Organelles

Part of the book series: Plant Gene Research ((GENE))

Abstract

Chloroplasts are the best known manifestation of a cytoplasmic organelle present in green plants, which in photosynthetic tissues contains the entire machinery for the process of photosynthesis, but can also participate in starch accumulation or color development, depending upon the tissue in which it resides. Since the demonstration of a unique DNA species in chloroplasts (Sager and Ishida, 1963), intensive studies have shown them to maintain their own genetic system which synthesizes some of the proteins and probably all of the RNA molecules present inside these organelles.

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Whittier, R.F., Sugiura, M. (1992). Plastid Chromosomes from Vascular Plants—Genes. In: Herrmann, R.G. (eds) Cell Organelles. Plant Gene Research. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9138-5_5

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