Abstract
Both plastid- and nuclear-encoded proteins are involved in photosynthetic reactions carried out by chloroplasts. While the structure of various plastome-encoded photosynthesis-related genes has been worked out, little is known about the mechanism of regulation of gene expression which is responsible for differentiation of chloroplasts. At the same time, several signal cascades have been worked out in animals and plants for regulation of nuclear gene expression. The aim of the present investigation was to study regulation of plastid and nuclear-encoded photosynthesis-related genes at steady-state mRNA level as influenced by light and development. Earlier, we have reported an interaction of light and developmental (temporal and spatial) cues in establishing steady-state transcript levels of photosynthesis-related genes in rice (Grover et al 1998, 1999a, Kapoor et al 1993, 1994) and Arabidopsis (Grover et al 1999b, Jain et al 1998, Kochhar et al 1996). In this article, a summary of these results along with the new information about the signal transduction, the level of gene regulation and promoter analysis, and the progress made towards developing a plastid transformation system for rice has been presented.
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Tyagi, A.K. et al. (2001). Mechanism of Regulation of Gene Expression for Chloroplast Proteins. In: Sopory, S.K., Oelmüller, R., Maheshwari, S.C. (eds) Signal Transduction in Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1365-0_28
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