Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids

   • Michael W. Gray, John M. Archibald

   Pages 1-30

3. Secondary and Tertiary Endosymbiosis and Kleptoplasty

   • Jeferson Gross, Debashish Bhattacharya, Karen N. Pelletreau, Mary E. Rumpho, Adrian Reyes-Prieto

   Pages 31-58

4. Plastid Genomes of Algae

   • B. Franz Lang, Aurora M. Nedelcu

   Pages 59-87

5. Plastomes of Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns

   • Paul G. Wolf, Kenneth G. Karol

   Pages 89-102

6. Plastid Genomes of Seed Plants

   • Robert K. Jansen, Tracey A. Ruhlman

   Pages 103-126

7. Mitochondrial Genomes of Algae

   • Gertraud Burger, Aurora M. Nedelcu

   Pages 127-157

8. Conservative and Dynamic Evolution of Mitochondrial Genomes in Early Land Plants

   • Yang Liu, Bin Wang, Libo Li, Yin-Long Qiu, Jiayu Xue

   Pages 159-174

9. Seed Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Complexity Evolving

   • Volker Knoop

   Pages 175-200

10. Promiscuous Organellar DNA

    • Andrew H. Lloyd, Mathieu Rousseau-Gueutin, Jeremy N. Timmis, Anna E. Sheppard, Michael A. Ayliffe

    Pages 201-221

11. Horizontal Gene Transfer in Eukaryotes: Fungi-to-Plant and Plant-to-Plant Transfers of Organellar DNA

    • Susanne S. Renner, Sidonie Bellot

    Pages 223-235

12. Plastome Mutants of Higher Plants

    • Stephan Greiner

    Pages 237-266

13. Plant Mitochondrial Mutations

    • Susan Gabay-Laughnan, Kathleen J. Newton

    Pages 267-291

14. Land Plant RNA Editing or: Don’t Be Fooled by Plant Organellar DNA Sequences

    • Sabrina Finster, Julia Legen, Yujiao Qu, Christian Schmitz-Linneweber

    Pages 293-321

15. Expression Profiling of Organellar Genes

    • Teodoro Cardi, Philippe Giegé, Sabine Kahlau, Nunzia Scotti

    Pages 323-355

16. Organellar Proteomics: Close Insights into the Spatial Breakdown and Functional Dynamics of Plant Primary Metabolism

    • Hans-Peter Braun, Holger Eubel

    Pages 357-378

17. Plastid Transformation in Algae

    • Jörg Nickelsen, Alexandra-Viola Bohne

    Pages 379-392

18. Plastid Transformation in Flowering Plants

    • Pal Maliga

    Pages 393-414

19. Reverse Genetics in Flowering Plant Plastids

    • Anil Day

    Pages 415-441

20. Transformation and Nucleic Acid Delivery to Mitochondria

    • Claire Remacle, Veronique Larosa, Thalia Salinas, Patrice Hamel, Nitya Subrahmanian, Nathalie Bonnefoy et al.

    Pages 443-458

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of our knowledge on the structure, coding capacity and evolution of the genomes of the two DNA-containing cell organelles in plants: chloroplasts (plastids) and mitochondria. Comparative genomics analyses have provided new insights into the origin of organelles by endosymbioses and uncovered an enormous evolutionary dynamics of organellar genomes. In addition, they have greatly helped to clarify phylogenetic relationships, especially in algae and early land plants with limited morphological and anatomical diversity. This book, written by leading experts, summarizes our current knowledge about plastid and mitochondrial genomes in all major groups of algae and land plants. It also includes chapters on endosymbioses, plastid and mitochondrial mutants, gene expression profiling and methods for organelle transformation. The book is designed for students and researchers in plant molecular biology, taxonomy, biotechnology and evolutionary biology.

• chloroplast
• genome evolution
• mitochondrion
• plastid
• Systematic Botany

• POTSDAM-GOLM 14476, Germany

  Ralph Bock

• Inst. Zelluläre und Molekulare, Botanik (IZMB), Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Volker Knoop

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