Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plant Organelles: Chloroplasts and Mitochondria

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction to the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plant Organelles....Pages 1-12
The Evolutionary Origins of Plant Organelles....Pages 15-36
The Somatic Inheritance of Plant Organelles....Pages 37-92
The Sexual Inheritance of Plant Organelles....Pages 93-113
Plastid Genomes....Pages 115-150
Plant Mitochondrial Genomes....Pages 151-177
Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Genomics Applied to Plant Organelles....Pages 179-209
The Transcription of Plant Organelle Genomes....Pages 213-237
RNA Editing in Plant Organelles....Pages 239-260
Plastid and Plant Mitochondrial RNA Processing and RNA Stability....Pages 261-294
Intron Splicing in Plant Organelles....Pages 295-322
Translational Machinery in Plant Organelles....Pages 323-345
Regulation of Translation in Chloroplasts....Pages 347-383
Targeting Signals and Import Machinery of Plastids and Plant Mitochondria....Pages 385-417
Proteolysis in Plant Organelles....Pages 419-440
Chloroplast Genetic Engineering....Pages 443-490
Engineering Herbicide Resistance Pathways in Plastids....Pages 491-511
Metabolic Engineering of Chloroplasts for Abiotic Stress Tolerance....Pages 513-525
Metabolic Pathway Engineering For Nutrition Enrichment....Pages 527-542
Plastid Metabolic Pathways for Fatty Acid Metabolism....Pages 543-564
Metabolic Engineering: Plastids as Bioreactors....Pages 565-591
Cytoplasmic Male Sterility and Fertility Restoration by Nuclear Genes....Pages 593-621
The Use of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility for Hybrid Seed Production....Pages 623-634
Somatic Cell Cybrids and Hybrids in Plant Improvement....Pages 635-659