Expression of Plastid Genes: Organelle-Specific Elaborations on a Prokaryotic Scaffold

Alice Barkan

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · 2011 · 300 citations · 87 references

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Abstract

Chloroplasts and their nonphotosynthetic relatives in the plastid organelle family evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont (for review, see [Timmis et al., 2004][1]). The subsequent coevolution of the chloroplast and nuclear genomes produced an organelle that is eubacterial at its core but with

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