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Plastid Differentiation: Organelle Promoters and Transcription Factors

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Plant Promoters and Transcription Factors

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ((RESULTS,volume 20))

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One of the most distinctive features of plants is the existence of plastids, i.e., the typical DNA-containing organelles that usually occur in multiple copies per cell, originate by division, and are capable of differentiation (for review, see Kirk and Tilney-Bassett 1967). Various developmental pathways are known, each leading from the undifferentiated small proplastids of meristematic cells to the specialized end products such as the photosynthetically active chloroplasts, the etioplasts in dark-grown angiosperm seedlings, and several other pigmented (chromoplasts) or unpigmented plastid forms (leucoplasts). Most of these specialized organelles can be interconverted in response to internal or external cues such as hormones and light (for review, see e.g. Thomson and Whatley 1980; Baker and Barber 1984). Despite this flexibility, it appears as a general principle that each plant cell harbors a uniform plastid population of a type which precisely matches the differentiation state of the entire cell. In molecular terms, several aspects of plastid differentiation are notable (Fig. 1).

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Link, G. (1994). Plastid Differentiation: Organelle Promoters and Transcription Factors. In: Nover, L. (eds) Plant Promoters and Transcription Factors. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48037-2_3

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