Instituto de Bioingeniería, Campus de Elche, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03202 Elche, Spain.
Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Feb 20;22(4):2104. doi: 10.3390/ijms22042104.
Eleven published articles (4 reviews, 7 research papers) are collected in the Special Issue entitled "Organelle Genetics in Plants." This selection of papers covers a wide range of topics related to chloroplasts and plant mitochondria research: (i) organellar gene expression (OGE) and, more specifically, chloroplast RNA editing in soybean, mitochondria RNA editing, and intron splicing in soybean during nodulation, as well as the study of the roles of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of OGE in plant adaptation to environmental stress; (ii) analysis of the nuclear integrants of mitochondrial DNA (NUMTs) or plastid DNA (NUPTs); (iii) sequencing and characterization of mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes; (iv) recent advances in plastid genome engineering. Here we summarize the main findings of these works, which represent the latest research on the genetics, genomics, and biotechnology of chloroplasts and mitochondria.
本期特刊题为“植物细胞器遗传学”,共收录了 11 篇已发表的文章(4 篇综述,7 篇研究论文)。这些论文涵盖了与叶绿体和植物线粒体研究相关的广泛主题:(i)细胞器基因表达(OGE),更具体地说,大豆中的叶绿体 RNA 编辑、线粒体 RNA 编辑和结瘤过程中的大豆内含子剪接,以及研究 OGE 的转录和转录后调控在植物适应环境胁迫中的作用;(ii)线粒体 DNA(NUMTs)或质体 DNA(NUPTs)的核整合体分析;(iii)线粒体和叶绿体基因组的测序和特征分析;(iv)质体基因组工程的最新进展。在这里,我们总结了这些工作的主要发现,这些发现代表了叶绿体和线粒体的遗传学、基因组学和生物技术的最新研究进展。