Article
The plastid clpP1 protease gene is essential for plant development.
Nature - 4 Sept 2003
Kuroda Hiroshi, Maliga Pal
Abstract excerpt
Plastids of higher plants are semi-autonomous cellular organelles that have their own genome and transcription-translation machinery. Examples of plastid functions are photosynthesis and biosynthesis of starch, amino acids, lipids and pigments. Plastid functions are encoded in approximately 120 plastid genes and approximately 3,000 nuclear genes. Although many embryo and seedling lethal nuclear genes are required...
Topics
- Endopeptidases
- Gene Deletion
- Genes, Essential
- Genes, Plant
- Genotype
- Integrases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Plant Shoots
- Plastids
- Seeds
- Nicotiana
