title: Chloroplast research in the genomic age.
abstract: Chloroplast research takes significant advantage of genomics and genome sequencing, and a new picture is emerging of how the chloroplast functions and communicates with other cellular compartments. In terms of evolution, it is now known that only a fraction of the many proteins of cyanobacterial origin were rerouted to higher plant plastids. Reverse genetics and novel mutant screens are providing a growing catalogue of chloroplast protein-function relationships, and the characterization of plastid-to-nucleus signalling mutants reveals cell-organelle interactions. Recent advances in transcriptomics and proteomics of the chloroplast make this organelle one of the best understood of all plant cell compartments.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Pflanzenzüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Köln, Germany. leister@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leister
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D036226:Seedlings / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase