Entries from 2013-05-01 to 1 month

plant mitochondria

Christensen AC 2013 Plant mitochondrial genome evolution can be explained by DNA repair mechanisms. Genome Biol Evol 5:1079-1086. plant mitochondrial genomes are notorious for their large and variable size, nonconserved open reading frames…

plant mitochondria

Fauré S, Noyer J-L, Carreel F, Horry J-P, Bakry F & Lanaud C 1994 Maternal inheritance of chloroplast genome and paternal inheritance of mitochondrial genome in bananas (Musa acuminata). Curr Genet 25:265-269.

plant mitochondria

Havey MJ, McCreight JD, Rhodes B & Taurick G 1998 Differential transmission of the Cucumis organellar genomes. Theor Appl Genet 97:122-128. the chloroplast genomes of melon, squash, and watermelon were maternally transmitted the mitochondr…

DNA repair

Kohl S & Bock R 2009 Transposition of a bacterial insertion sequence in chloroplasts. Plant J 58:423-436. after cleavage at the IS150 borders, the double-strand breaks left behind in the plastid genome cannot be efficiently repaired by non…

plant mitochondria

Wang D-Y, Zhang Q, Liu Y, Lin Z-F, Zhang S-X, Sun M-X & Sodmergen 2010 The levels of male gametic mitochondrial DNA are highly regulated in angiosperms with regard to mitochondrial inheritance. Plant Cell 22:2402-2416. each egg cell from A…

plant mitochondria

Knoop V 2012 Seed plant mitochondrial genomes: complexity evolving. Pages 175-200 in Knoop V & Bock R, eds. Genomics of chloroplasts and mitochondria. Springer. ISBN:9789400729193 pollen biogenesis appears to be the major bottleneck reveal…

CMS

Gobron N, Waszczak C, Simon M, Hiard S, Boivin S, Charif D, Ducamp A, Wenes E & Budar F 2013 A cryptic cytoplasmic male sterility unveils a possible gynodioecious past for Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE 8:e62450. we found cryptic CMS in th…