Organelle Genetics in Plants

Download or read book Organelle Genetics in Plants written by Víctor Quesada and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms and mitochondria in a vast majority of eukaryotes, contain part of the genetic material of a eukaryotic cell. The organisation and inheritance patterns of this organellar DNA are quite different to that of nuclear DNA. Present-day chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes contain only a few dozen genes. Nevertheless, these organelles harbor several thousand proteins, the vast majority of them encoded by the nucleus. As a result, the expression of nuclear and organelle genomes has to be very precisely coordinated.