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Nonessential plastid-encoded ribosomal proteins in tobacco: a developmental role for plastid translation and implications for reductive genome evolution.
The Plant cell - 1 Sept 2011
Fleischmann Tobias T, Scharff Lars B, Alkatib Sibah, Hasdorf Sebastian, Schöttler Mark A, Bock Ralph
Abstract excerpt
Plastid genomes of higher plants contain a conserved set of ribosomal protein genes. Although plastid translational activity is essential for cell survival in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), individual plastid ribosomal proteins can be nonessential. Candidates for nonessential plastid ribosomal proteins are ribosomal proteins identified as nonessential in bacteria and those whose genes were lost from the highly...
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