Update on chloroplast research

Armbruster, Ute; Pesaresi, Paolo; Pribil, Mathias; Hertle, Alexander and Leister, Dario (5. October 2010): Update on chloroplast research. New tools, new topics, and new trends. In: Molecular plant, Vol. 4, No. 1: pp. 1-16

Abstract

Chloroplasts, the green differentiation form of plastids, are the sites of photosynthesis and other important plant functions. Genetic and genomic technologies have greatly boosted the rate of discovery and functional characterization of chloroplast proteins during the past decade. Indeed, data obtained using high-throughput methodologies, in particular proteomics and transcriptomics, are now routinely used to assign functions to chloroplast proteins. Our knowledge of many chloroplast processes, notably photosynthesis and photorespiration, has reached such an advanced state that biotechnological approaches to crop improvement now seem feasible. Meanwhile, efforts to identify the entire complement of chloroplast proteins and their interactions are progressing rapidly, making the organelle a prime target for systems biology research in plants.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Postprint
• Keywords: Chloroplast biology; genetics; genomics; molecular biology; proteomics; transcriptome analysis
• Faculties: Biology
• Subjects: 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
• ISSN: 1674-2052
• Language: English