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To enhance our understanding of the roles of mitochondrial transcription termination factors (mTERFs) in plants, we have taken a reverse genetic approach in Arabidopsis thaliana. One of the mutants isolated carried a novel allele of the mTERF6 gene, which we named mterf6-5. mTERF6 is a chloroplast
We previously showed that Arabidopsis mda1 and mterf9 mutants, defective in the chloroplast-targeted mitochondrial transcription termination factors mTERF5 and mTERF9, respectively, display altered responses to abiotic stresses and the abscisic acid (ABA) hormone, as well as perturbed development,
Most chloroplast and mitochondrial proteins are encoded by nuclear genes, whose functions remain largely unknown because mutant alleles are lacking. A reverse genetics screen for mutations affecting the mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) family in Arabidopsis thaliana allowed us
In many plant species, a subset of the genes of the chloroplast genome is transcribed by RpoTp, a nuclear-encoded plastid-targeted RNA polymerase. Here, we describe the positional cloning of the SCABRA3 (SCA3) gene, which was found to encode RpoTp in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). We studied
Plastid gene expression (PGE) must adequately respond to changes in both development and environmental cues. The transcriptional machinery of plastids in land plants is far more complex than that of prokaryotes. Two types of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases transcribe the plastid genome: a multimeric
Leaves develop as planar organs, with a morphology that is specialized for photosynthesis. Development of a planar leaf requires genetic networks that set up opposing adaxial and abaxial sides of the leaf, which leads to establishment of dorsoventral polarity. While many genes have been identified
Determining whether individual genes function in the same or in different pathways is an important aspect of genetic analysis. As an alternative to the construction of higher-order mutants, we used contemporary expression profiling methods to perform pathway analysis on several Arabidopsis thaliana