The size, relative age and chromosomal localization of NUPTs and NUMTs. We analysed plastid and mitochondrial DNA sequences localized in nucleus (NUPTs and NUMTs) in six completely sequenced plant ...

Phytochrome activates the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase for chloroplast biogenesis via nucleus-to-plastid signaling. Nature Communications, 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10518-0; ...

The evidence for such plastid-nucleus signaling was bolstered in 1993, when a group led by plant biologist Joanne Chory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California ...

For example, one photosynthetic gene that has been transferred to the nucleus in all algae and plants is still found on the Paulinella plastid genome, as are genes involved in nitrogen fixation ...

Plastids, the photosynthetic organelles of plants and eukaryotic algae are ancient cyanobacterial endosymbionts. I have compiled a comprehensive dataset of fully sequenced plastid genomes to ...

A new study in Nature Plants reveals that DNA double-strand break repair (DSBR) pathways help prevent gene transfer from organelles to the nucleus in plants. Disruption of DSBR increases the risk ...

The nucleus then has to send a command to a sub-organ called a plastid to transform itself into a chloroplast, which manufactures the green pigment chlorophyll.