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Chloroplast development in Arabidopsis thaliana requires the nuclear-encoded transcription factor sigma B.
FEBS letters - 24 Nov 2000
Shirano Y, Shimada H, Kanamaru K, Fujiwara M, Tanaka K, Takahashi H, Unno K, Sato S, Tabata S, Hayashi H, Miyake C, Yokota A, Shibata D
Abstract excerpt
Development of plastids into chloroplasts, the organelles of photosynthesis, is triggered by light. However, little is known of the factors involved in the complex coordination of light-induced plastid gene expression, which must be directed by both nuclear and plastid genomes. We have isolated an Arabidopsis mutant, abc1, with impaired chloroplast development, which results in a pale green leaf phenotype. The...
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