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The Continuity of Plastids and the Differentiation of Plastid Populations
1980The development of a proplastid into a chloroplast is only one aspect of the development of the photosynthetic system. We have to ask further questions about (1) the continuity of plastids from cell to cell, and (2) how the number of plastids in a cell is regulated.
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Crystalloids in apparent autophagic plastids: Remnants of plastids or peroxisomes?
Journal of Plant Physiology, 2015Plant macroautophagy is carried out by autophagosome-type organelles. Recent evidence suggests that plastids also can carry out macroautophagy. The double membrane at the surface of plastids apparently invaginates, forming an intraplastidial space. This space contains a portion of cytoplasm that apparently becomes degraded.
PAPINI, ALESSIO, Wouter van Doorn
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1980
The possession of at least one form of plastid within its cytoplasm has been suggested as the feature which most clearly distinguishes a eukaryotic plant cell from an animal cell. Certainly no living cell of a higher plant has so far been described which completely lacks plastids.
Robert A. Reid, Rachel M. Leech
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The possession of at least one form of plastid within its cytoplasm has been suggested as the feature which most clearly distinguishes a eukaryotic plant cell from an animal cell. Certainly no living cell of a higher plant has so far been described which completely lacks plastids.
Robert A. Reid, Rachel M. Leech
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Plastids in parasites of humans
BioEssays, 1997AbstractIt has recently emerged that malarial, toxoplasmodial and related parasites contain a vestigial plastid (the organelle in which photosynthesis occurs in plants and algae). The function of the plastid in these obligate intracellular parasites has not been established.
Ross F. Waller, Geoffrey I. McFadden
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The Plant Journal, 2013
SummaryPlastids (chloroplasts) harbor a small gene‐dense genome that is amenable to genetic manipulation by transformation. During 1 billion years of evolution from the cyanobacterial endosymbiont to present‐day chloroplasts, the plastid genome has undergone a dramatic size reduction, mainly as a result of gene losses and the large‐scale transfer of ...
Ralph Bock, Lars B. Scharff
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SummaryPlastids (chloroplasts) harbor a small gene‐dense genome that is amenable to genetic manipulation by transformation. During 1 billion years of evolution from the cyanobacterial endosymbiont to present‐day chloroplasts, the plastid genome has undergone a dramatic size reduction, mainly as a result of gene losses and the large‐scale transfer of ...
Ralph Bock, Lars B. Scharff
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Plastid Transformation in Eggplant
2014Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable crop of tropical and temperate regions of the world. Here we describe a procedure for eggplant plastid transformation, which involves preparation of explants, biolistic delivery of plastid transformation vector into green stem segments, selection procedure, and identification of the ...
Kailash C. Bansal, Ajay Kumar Singh
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Plastid Transformation in Soybean
2014The biotechnological potential of plastid genetic engineering has been illustrated in a limited number of higher plant species. We have developed a reproducible method to generate plastid transformants in soybean (Glycine max), a crop of major agronomic importance.
Ghislaine Tissot +2 more
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Protein expression in plastids
Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2001The genome of the plastid has generated much interest as a target for plant transformation. The characteristics of plastid transgenes both reflect the prokaryotic origin of plastid organelles and provide a unique set of features that are currently lacking in genes introduced into the plant nucleus. Recent progress has been made in understanding plastid
Ann Tuttle, Peter Bernard Heifetz
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Evolutionary History of Plastids
The Biological Bulletin, 1999A major biological event contributing to the biodiversity of present-day organisms was the enslavement of a photosynthetic eubacterium by a primitive eukaryote and its entrapment as an integral part of the cell: the plastid. Since the first acquisition by eukaryotes of photosynthetic capability by primary endosymbiosis, two major lineages (red and ...
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Plastids and Carotenoid Accumulation
2016Plastids are ubiquitously present in plants and are the organelles for carotenoid biosynthesis and storage. Based on their morphology and function, plastids are classified into various types, i.e. proplastids, etioplasts, chloroplasts, amyloplasts, and chromoplasts. All plastids, except proplastids, can synthesize carotenoids.
Yunliu Zeng, Hui Yuan, Qiang Xu, Li Li
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