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The chloroplast genome

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Abstract

Chloroplasts are intracellular organelles in plants which contain the entire machinery necessary for the process of photosynthesis. They also participate in the biosynthesis of amino acids, nucleotides, lipids and starch. Mendel’s law was rediscovered at the beginning of this century, and in 1909 Baur and Correns separately published the first reports of non-Mendelian inheritance based on studies of variegation in higher plants. Some of the green-and-white variegated leaves were shown to be caused by factors inherited in a non-Mendelian manner. Further analysis of variegation in higher plants revealed that the genetic determinants for these characters were associated with chloroplasts. However, the difficulty of obtaining specific chloroplast mutations has limited the study of non-Mendelian genetics in higher plants. Our knowledge of extranuclear genetics came primarily from studies using the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas.

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