ArticlePlant physiology2008
Transfer of plastid DNA to the nucleus is elevated during male gametogenesis in tobacco.
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- Nuclear Integrants of Organellar DNA Contribute to Genome Structure and Evolution in Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
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- Mosaic mitochondrial-plastid insertions into the nuclear genome show evidence of both non-homologous end joining and homologous recombination.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
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- Visualisation of plastid degradation in sperm cells of wheat pollen.Protoplasma · 2017Article
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- Ancient nuclear plastid DNA in the yew family (taxaceae).Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
- Transcription of nuclear organellar DNA in a model plant system.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
- Evolution and biology of supernumerary B chromosomes.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2014Review
- Patterns of genomic integration of nuclear chloroplast DNA fragments in plant species.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2014Article
- B chromosomes of Aegilops speltoides are enriched in organelle genome-derived sequences.PloS one · 2014Article
- Potential functional replacement of the plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase subunit (accD) gene by recent transfers to the nucleus in some angiosperm lineages.Plant physiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
In eukaryotes, many genes were transferred to the nucleus from prokaryotic ancestors of the cytoplasmic organelles during endosymbiotic evolution. In plants, the transfer of genetic material from the plastid (chloroplast) and mitochondrion to the nucleus is a continuing process. The cellular location of a kanamycin resistance gene tailored for nuclear expression (35SneoSTLS2) was monitored in the progeny of reciprocal crosses of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) in which, at the start of the experiments, the reporter gene was confined either to the male or the female parental plastid genome. Among 146,000 progeny from crosses where the transplastomic parent was male, 13 transposition events were identified, whereas only one atypical transposition was identified in a screen of 273,000 transplastomic ovules. In a second experiment, a transplastomic beta-glucuronidase reporter gene, tailored to be expressed only in the nucleus, showed frequent stochastic expression that was confined to the cytoplasm in the somatic cells of several plant tissues. This gene was stably transferred in two out of 98,000 seedlings derived from a male transplastomic line crossed with a female wild type. These data demonstrate relocation of plastid DNA to the nucleus in both somatic and gametophytic tissue and reveal a large elevation of the frequency of transposition in the male germline. The results suggest a new explanation for the occurrence of uniparental inheritance in eukaryotes.
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