Chloroplast genomes: diversity, evolution, and applications in genetic engineering

H Daniell, CS Lin, M Yu, WJ Chang - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Chloroplasts play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth. The availability of over 800
sequenced chloroplast genomes from a variety of land plants has enhanced our …

Green giant—a tiny chloroplast genome with mighty power to produce high‐value proteins: history and phylogeny

H Daniell, S Jin, XG Zhu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

Engineering plastid genomes: methods, tools, and applications in basic research and biotechnology

R Bock - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The small bacterial-type genome of the plastid (chloroplast) can be engineered by genetic
transformation, generating cells and plants with transgenic plastid genomes, also referred to …

Chloroplast vector systems for biotechnology applications

D Verma, H Daniell - Plant physiology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Chloroplasts are ideal hosts for expression of transgenes. Transgene integration into the
chloroplast genome occurs via homologous recombination of flanking sequences used in …

Development and applications of transplastomic plants; a way towards eco-friendly agriculture

MJ Hossain, A Bakhsh - Environment, climate, plant and vegetation …, 2020 - Springer
With distribution of genetic materials and advance molecular characteristics, the chloroplast
is prokaryotic compartments within the eukaryotic plants that have turned into a crucial …

Protein maturation and proteolysis in plant plastids, mitochondria, and peroxisomes

KJ van Wijk - Annual review of plant biology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Plastids, mitochondria, and peroxisomes are key organelles with dynamic proteomes in
photosynthetic eukaryotes. Their biogenesis and activity must be coordinated and require …

Plastid biotechnology: food, fuel, and medicine for the 21st century

P Maliga, R Bock - Plant Physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
DNA-containing cellular compartments in plant cells are the nucleus, plastids, and
mitochondria. The nuclear genome, encoding approximately 29,000 to 32,000 genes, is the …

Plastid transformation: how does it work? Can it be applied to crops? What can it offer?

Y Yu, PC Yu, WJ Chang, K Yu, CS Lin - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, plant genetic engineering has advanced agriculture in terms of crop
improvement, stress and disease resistance, and pharmaceutical biosynthesis. Cells from …

Plastid biotechnology: prospects for herbicide and insect resistance, metabolic engineering and molecular farming

R Bock - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2007 - Elsevier
Transgene expression from the chloroplast (plastid) genome offers several attractions to
plant biotechnologists, including high-level accumulation of foreign proteins, transgene …

Advancing organelle genome transformation and editing for crop improvement

S Li, L Chang, J Zhang - Plant communications, 2021 - cell.com
Plant cells contain three organelles that harbor DNA: the nucleus, plastids, and
mitochondria. Plastid transformation has emerged as an attractive platform for the …