F Leliaert, DR Smith, H Moreau… - Critical reviews in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The green lineage (Viridiplantae) comprises the green algae and their descendants the land plants, and is one of the major groups of oxygenic photosynthetic eukaryotes. Current …
Photosynthetic organisms provide food and energy for nearly all life on Earth, yet half of their protein-coding genes remain uncharacterized,. Characterization of these genes could be …
X Li, R Zhang, W Patena, SS Gang, SR Blum… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a leading unicellular model for dissecting biological processes in photosynthetic eukaryotes. However, its usefulness has been limited …
This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and …
M Lohse, O Drechsel, R Bock - Current genetics, 2007 - Springer
Mitochondria and plastids are DNA-containing cell organelles whose genomes occur at high copy numbers per cell. Organellar genomes vary greatly in size ranging from approximately …
PA Salomé, SS Merchant - The Plant Cell, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a classical reference organism for studying photosynthesis, chloroplast biology, cell cycle control, and cilia structure and …
S Sasso, H Stibor, M Mittag, AR Grossman - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
In the mid-20th century, the unicellular and genetically tractable green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was first developed as a model organism to elucidate …
Dr. Harris has played a major role in the development of this organism as a model system. Her previous version of the Chlamydomonas Sourcebook which published in 1989, has …
Current proposals to improve photosynthesis to meet our energy and food needs include the following:(1) improving the performance of Rubisco;(2) decreasing photorespiration by …