Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bock, Ralph (Editor), Knoop, Volker (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Including Bioenergy and Related Processes, 35
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant genetics.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Physiology.; Cell Biology.

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 plasti...