title: The plastid genomes of flowering plants.
abstract: The plastid genome (plastome) has proved a valuable source of data for evaluating evolutionary relationships among angiosperms. Through basic and applied approaches, plastid transformation technology offers the potential to understand and improve plant productivity, providing food, fiber, energy and medicines to meet the needs of a burgeoning global population. The growing genomic resources available to both phylogenetic and biotechnological investigations are allowing novel insights and expanding the scope of plastome research to encompass new species. In this chapter we present an overview of some of the seminal and contemporary research that has contributed to our current understanding of plastome evolution and attempt to highlight the relationship between evolutionary mechanisms and tools of plastid genetic engineering.
authors.affiliation: Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Tracey A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Ruhlman
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004260:DNA Repair; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D017353:Gene Deletion; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D054627:Genome, Plastid / Q000235:genetics*; D042822:Genomic Instability; D055029:Inverted Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000235:genetics*; D018087:Plastids / Q000235:genetics*; D026801:Synteny / Q000235:genetics; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant