In Silico Analysis of Fatty Acid Desaturases Structures in <i>Camelina sativa</i>, and Functional Evaluation of <i>Csafad7</i> and <i>Csafad8</i> on Seed Oil Formation and Seed Mor... by Nadia Raboanatahiry, Yongtai Yin, Kang Chen, Jianjie He, Longjiang Yu, Maoteng Li

“…<i>C. sativa</i> ω3-fatty acid desaturases <i>CsaFAD7</i> and <i>CsaDAF8</i> were cloned and the subcellular localization analysis showed their location in the chloroplast. They were transferred into <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> to obtain transgenic lines. …”
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Reduction in Phosphoribulokinase Amount and Re-Routing Metabolism in <i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i> CP12 Mutants by Cassy Gérard, Régine Lebrun, Erwan Lemesle, Luisana Avilan, Kwang Suk Chang, EonSeon Jin, Frédéric Carrière, Brigitte Gontero, Hélène Launay

“…The chloroplast protein CP12 is involved in the dark/light regulation of the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle, in particular, in the dark inhibition of two enzymes: glyceraldehyde−3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and phosphoribulokinase (PRK), but other functions related to stress have been proposed. …”
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Comparative anatomical and transcriptomic analyses of the color variation of leaves in Aquilaria sinensis by Jiaqi Gao, Tong Chen, Chao Jiang, Tielin Wang, Ou Huang, Xiang Zhang, Juan Liu

“…In addition, the structure of chloroplast was more complete in the midrib of LNS than that of LGS, and some particles suspected as virus were found through transmission electron microscope as well. …”
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Integral Phylogenomic Approach over Ilex L. Species from Southern South America by Jimena Cascales, Mariana Bracco, Mariana J. Garberoglio, Lidia Poggio, Alexandra M. Gottlieb

“…Also, we intended to gain insights into the nature of morphological and physiological characters used to identify species. We obtained the chloroplast genomes of I. paraguariensis and I. dumosa, and combined these with all the congeneric plastomes currently available to accomplish interspecific comparisons and multilocus analyses. …”
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Allopatric Lineage Divergence of the East Asian Endemic Herb <i>Conandron ramondioides</i> Inferred from Low-Copy Nuclear and Plastid Markers by Kuan-Ting Hsin, Hao-Chih Kuo, Goro Kokubugata, Michael Möller, Chun-Neng Wang, Yi-Sheng Cheng

“…We reconstructed the evolutionary and population demography history of <i>C. ramondioides</i> to infer its divergence process. Nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences were obtained from 21 <i>Conandron</i> populations on both sides of the East China Sea (ECS) to explore its genetic diversity, structure, and population differentiation. …”
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Phylogeny, biogeography, and character evolution of Anaphalis (Gnaphalieae, Asteraceae) by Xue-Min Xu, He Xu, Zheng Yang, Zhen Wei, Jun-Yu Gu, Jun-Yu Gu, Dan-Hui Liu, Quan-Ru Liu, Shi-Xin Zhu

“…Herein, based on the current most comprehensive sampling of the HAP clade, especially Anaphalis, we conducted phylogenetic analyses using chloroplast (cp) genome and nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) to evaluate the relationships within HAP clade, test the monophyly of Anaphalis, and examine the infrageneric taxonomy of this genus. …”
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Membrane Proteomic Profiling of Soybean Leaf and Root Tissues Uncovers Salt-Stress-Responsive Membrane Proteins by Hafiz Mamoon Rehman, Shengjie Chen, Shoudong Zhang, Memoona Khalid, Muhammad Uzair, Phillip A. Wilmarth, Shakeel Ahmad, Hon-Ming Lam

“…Additionally, the 140 NaCl-induced proteins identified in roots and 57 in leaves are vesicle-, mitochondrial-, and chloroplast-associated membrane proteins and those with functions related to ion transport, protein transport, ATP hydrolysis, protein folding, and receptor kinases, etc. …”
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The Genome-Wide Identification, Characterization, and Expression Analysis of the Strictosidine Synthase-like Family in Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) by Lei Gu, Yongyan Cao, Xuanxuan Chen, Hongcheng Wang, Bin Zhu, Xuye Du, Yiyue Sun

“…Moreover, ZmSSL4 and ZmSSL5 were localized in the chloroplast. Taken together, we provide insight into the evolutionary relationships of the <i>ZmSSL</i> genes, which would be useful to further identify the potential functions of <i>ZmSSLs</i> in maize.…”
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Development of a plant-based oral vaccine candidate against the bovine respiratory pathogen Mannheimia haemolytica by Angelo Kaldis, Muhammed Salah Uddin, Muhammed Salah Uddin, Jose Ortiz Guluarte, Coby Martin, Coby Martin, Trevor W. Alexander, Rima Menassa, Rima Menassa

“…The recombinant protein was found to accumulate highest in the endoplasmic reticulum, but targeting to the chloroplast was employed for scaling up production due the absence of post-translational modification while still producing feasible levels. …”
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Genome-wide identification of Mg2+ transporters and functional characteristics of DlMGT1 in Dimocarpus longan by Xinmin Lv, Shilian Huang, Jing Wang, Dongmei Han, Jianguang Li, Dongliang Guo, Haifeng Zhu

“…The results showed that, twelve DlMGTs are localized in the cell membrane, chloroplast, and nucleus. The evolutionary differences in MGTs between herbaceous and woody species in different plants. …”
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Biomass, lipid accumulation kinetics, and the transcriptome of heterotrophic oleaginous microalga Tetradesmus bernardii under different carbon and nitrogen sources by Baoyan Gao, Feifei Wang, Luodong Huang, Hui Liu, Yuming Zhong, Chengwu Zhang

“…As the nitrogen was consumed in the medium, nitrogen metabolism-related genes were significantly up-regulated to speed up the N metabolic cycle. As chloroplasts were destroyed in the dark, the metabolism of cells was transferred from chloroplasts to cytoplasm. …”
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The Complete Plastome Sequences of Seven Species in Gentiana sect. Kudoa (Gentianaceae): Insights Into Plastid Gene Loss and Molecular Evolution by Shan-Shan Sun, Peng-Cheng Fu, Xiao-Jun Zhou, Yan-Wei Cheng, Fa-Qi Zhang, Fa-Qi Zhang, Shi-Long Chen, Qing-Bo Gao, Qing-Bo Gao

“…The chloroplast (cp) genome is useful in the study of phylogenomics, molecular dating, and molecular evolution. …”
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Comparative transcriptomic and evolutionary analysis of FAD-like genes of Brassica species revealed their role in fatty acid biosynthesis and stress tolerance by Nabeel Shaheen, Uzair Muhammad Khan, Ayesha Farooq, Ummul Buneen Zafar, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Shakeel Ahmad, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Rana Muhammad Atif, Iqrar Ahmad Rana, Hyojin Seo

“…Most soluble FAD proteins are predicted to be resided in endomembrane system, whereas FAB proteins were found to be localized in chloroplast. Phylogenetic analysis classed the soluble and non-soluble FAD proteins into seven and four clusters, respectively. …”
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Insights into the multi-chromosomal mitochondrial genome structure of the xero-halophytic plant Haloxylon Ammodendron (C.A.Mey.) Bunge ex Fenzl by Lulu Yang, Jia Liu, Wenjun Guo, Zehan Zheng, Yafei Xu, Houjun Xia, Tian Xiao

“…Notably, 17 sequence fragments displayed homology between the mtDNA and chloroplast genome (cpDNA), spanning 5233 bp, accounting for 2.49% of the total mitogenome size. …”
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Halostachys caspica pathogenesis-related protein 10 acts as a cytokinin reservoir to regulate plant growth and development by Yudan Feng, Yanpeng Ren, Hua Zhang, Youqiang Heng, Zhanxin Wang, Yan Wang

“…Although the expression of cytokinin biosynthesis genes validated was not upregulated, cytokinin-related genes including chloroplast-related genes, cytokinin metabolism and cytokinin responses genes and flowering-related genes were significantly upregulated in the transgenic Arabidopsis compared to the wild type by transcriptome deep sequencing. …”
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Clarification of the Position of <i>Linum stelleroides</i> Planch. within the Phylogeny of the Genus <i>Linum</i> L. by Nadezhda L. Bolsheva, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Ekaterina M. Dvorianinova, Liudmila N. Mironova, Olga Y. Yurkevich, Alexandra V. Amosova, George S. Krasnov, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Olga V. Muravenko

“…In the present work, to clarify this issue, we obtained DNA sequences of three nuclear loci (IGS and ITS1 + 5.8S rDNA + ITS2 of the 35S rRNA gene and the 5S rRNA gene) and eight chloroplast loci (<i>rbcL</i>, the <i>trnL</i>–<i>trnF</i> intergenic spacer, <i>matK</i>, the 3′ <i>trnK</i> intron, <i>ndhF</i>, <i>trnG</i>, the <i>psbA</i>–<i>trnH</i> intergenic spacer, and <i>rpl16</i>) of 10 <i>Linum</i> L. species (<i>L. stelleroides</i>, <i>L. hirsutum</i>, <i>L. perenne</i>, <i>L. leonii</i>, <i>L. lewisii</i>, <i>L. narbonense</i>, <i>L. decumbens</i>, <i>L. grandiflorum</i>, <i>L. bienne</i> (syn. …”
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Effect of Shading on Physiological Attributes and Proteomic Analysis of Tea during Low Temperatures by Shah Zaman, Jiazhi Shen, Shuangshuang Wang, Dapeng Song, Hui Wang, Shibo Ding, Xu Pang, Mengqi Wang, Yu Wang, Zhaotang Ding

“…These differentially accumulated proteins (DAPs) were dehydrins (DHNs), late-embryogenesis abundant (LEA), thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs), glutathione S-transferase (GSTs), gibberellin-regulated proteins (GAs), proline-rich proteins (PRPs), cold and drought proteins (CORA-like), and early light-induced protein 1, which were found in the cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplast, extra cell, and plasma membrane, and functioned in catalytic, cellular, stimulus-response, and metabolic pathways. …”
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Irrigation mitigates the heat impacts on photosynthesis during grain filling in maize by Xing-long WANG, Yu-peng ZHU, Ye YAN, Jia-min HOU, Hai-jiang WANG, Ning LUO, Dan WEI, Qing-feng MENG, Pu WANG

“…For the hybrid XY335, the proton conductivity of chloroplast ATP synthase (vH+) and the minimal fluorescence (Fo) was increased by the SWC. …”
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Cytogenetics, Typification, Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of <i>Bentinckia</i> (Arecoideae, Arecaceae), an Unplaced Indian Endemic Palm from Areceae by Suhas K. Kadam, Rohit N. Mane, Asif S. Tamboli, Sandip K. Gavade, Pradip V. Deshmukh, Manoj M. Lekhak, Yeon-Sik Choo, Jae Hong Pak

“…To resolve this, we carried out Bayesian Inference (BI) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) analysis using an appropriate combination of chloroplast and nuclear DNA regions. The same phylogeny was used to study the evolutionary history of Areceae. …”
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Transcriptome and Metabolome Analysis of a Late-Senescent Vegetable Soybean during Seed Development Provides New Insights into Degradation of Chlorophyll by Jian Wang, Guang Chen, Xuetong Li, Xujun Fu, Sujuan Li, Xiaoyuan Tao, Zhong-Hua Chen, Shengchun Xu

“…Among them, farrerol-7-O-glucoside and cyanidin-3-o-(6′-o-feruloyl) glucoside are flavonoid derivatives containing mono and dihydroxy-B-ring chemical structures, respectively; and (4) Conclusions: It is speculated that the two metabolites can slow down the degradation process of chlorophyll by scavenging oxygen-free radicals in the chloroplast.…”
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