Chloroplast genomes: diversity, evolution, and applications in genetic engineering

H Daniell, CS Lin, M Yu, WJ Chang - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Chloroplasts play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth. The availability of over 800
sequenced chloroplast genomes from a variety of land plants has enhanced our …

Green giant—a tiny chloroplast genome with mighty power to produce high‐value proteins: history and phylogeny

H Daniell, S **, XG Zhu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

OrganellarGenomeDRAW (OGDRAW) version 1.3. 1: expanded toolkit for the graphical visualization of organellar genomes

S Greiner, P Lehwark, R Bock - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Organellar (plastid and mitochondrial) genomes play an important role in resolving
phylogenetic relationships, and next-generation sequencing technologies have led to a …

Chloroplot: an online program for the versatile plotting of organelle genomes

S Zheng, P Poczai, J Hyvönen, J Tang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the complexity of genomic structures and their unique architecture is linked
with the power of visualization tools used to represent these features. Such tools should be …

Therapeutic recombinant protein production in plants: Challenges and opportunities

MJB Burnett, AC Burnett - Plants, People, Planet, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Therapeutic protein production in plants is an area of great
potential for increasing and improving the production of proteins for the treatment or …

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

S Wicke, GM Schneeweiss, CW Depamphilis… - Plant molecular …, 2011 - Springer
This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture
in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and …

From algae to angiosperms–inferring the phylogeny of green plants (Viridiplantae) from 360 plastid genomes

BR Ruhfel, MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis… - BMC evolutionary …, 2014 - Springer
Background Next-generation sequencing has provided a wealth of plastid genome
sequence data from an increasingly diverse set of green plants (Viridiplantae). Although …

The chloroplast genome: a review

J Dobrogojski, M Adamiec, R Luciński - Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2020 - Springer
Chloroplasts are the metabolically active, semi-autonomous organelles found in plants,
algae and cyanobacteria. Their main function is to carry out the photosynthesis process …

Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs.

KH Wolfe, WH Li, PM Sharp - Proceedings of the National …, 1987 - National Acad Sciences
Comparison of plant mitochondrial (mt), chloroplast (cp) and nuclear (n) DNA sequences
shows that the silent substitution rate in mtDNA is less than one-third that in cpDNA, which in …

Mitochondrial and plastid genome architecture: reoccurring themes, but significant differences at the extremes

DR Smith, PJ Keeling - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Mitochondrial and plastid genomes show a wide array of architectures, varying immensely in
size, structure, and content. Some organelle DNAs have even developed elaborate …