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Effects of reduced chloroplast gene copy number on chloroplast gene expression in maize.
Plant physiology - 1 Nov 2012
Udy Dylan B, Belcher Susan, Williams-Carrier Rosalind, Gualberto José M, Barkan Alice
Abstract excerpt
Chloroplasts and other members of the plastid organelle family contain a small genome of bacterial ancestry. Young chloroplasts contain hundreds of genome copies, but the functional significance of this high genome copy number has been unclear. We describe molecular phenotypes associated with mut...
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