Background: In the Chlorophyta – the green algal phylum comprising the classes Prasinophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae and Chlorophyceae – the chloroplast genome displays a highly variable architecture. While chlorophycean chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs) deviate considerably from the ancestral pattern described for the prasinophyte Nephroselmis olivacea, the degree of remodelling sustained by t...

Papaver rhoeas L. and P. orientale L., which belong to the family Papaveraceae, are used as ornamental and medicinal plants. The chloroplast genome has been used for molecular markers, evolutionary biology, and barcoding identification. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome sequences of P. rhoeas and P. orientale are reported. Results show that the complete chloroplast genomes of P. rh...

Chloroplast research takes significant advantage of genomics and genome sequencing, and a new picture is emerging of how the chloroplast functions and communicates with other cellular compartments. In terms of evolution, it is now known that only a fraction of the many proteins of cyanobacterial origin were rerouted to higher plant plastids. Reverse genetics and novel mutant screens are providi...

Sesamum indicum is an important crop plant species for yielding oil. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome of S. indicum (GenBank acc no. JN637766) is 153,324 bp in length, and has a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions consisting of 25,141 bp each. The lengths of the large single copy (LSC) and the small single copy (SSC) regions are 85,170 bp and 17,872 bp, respectively. Comparative cp DNA seq...

In the Chlorophyceae, the chloroplast genome is extraordinarily fluid in architecture and displays unique features relative to other groups of green algae. For the Chaetophorales, 1 of the 5 major lineages of the Chlorophyceae, it has been shown that the distinctive architecture of the 223,902-bp genome of Stigeoclonium helveticum is consistent with bidirectional DNA replication from a single o...

The completion of the chloroplast genome sequence of the chlorophyte alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in our laboratory has been announced recently (J. Maul, J. Lilly, and D.B. Stern, unpublished data; accession no. AF396929). Because C. reinhardtii is the most genetically and biochemically tractable eukaryotic model system for photosynthesis and chloroplast gene expression (for review, see Harri...

The completion of the chloroplast genome sequence of the chlorophyte alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in our laboratory has been announced recently (J. Maul, J. Lilly, and D.B. Stern, unpublished data; accession no. AF396929). Because C. reinhardtii is the most genetically and biochemically tractable eukaryotic model system for photosynthesis and chloroplast gene expression (for review, see Harri...