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- Title
- Chloroplast genetic transformation in higher plants: an encounter between prokaryote and eukaryote = 고등식물의 엽록체 형질전환: 원핵생물과 진핵생물의 조우
- Author(s)
- Hwa-Jee Chung; Y Suh; Won Joong Chung; Sung Ran Min; Jang Ryol Liu
- Bibliographic Citation
- Journal of Plant Biotechnology, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 185-194
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Abstract
- Chloroplasts are believed to be descended from certain cyanobacteria, which were taken up by phagocytosis into a host cell and lived there in a symbiotic relationship. In contrast to the current static concept on the chloroplast genome, its dynamism has been recently demonstrated: the chloroplast genome is active in intramolecular homologous recombination, producing subgenomic circles when it obtains homolgous sequences via genetic transformation. Chloroplast tranformation in higher plants provides many advantages over nuclear transformation that include higher expression levels of transgenes, polycistronic expression of transgenes, and maternal transmission of transgenes. Tobacco has been used as a model for chloroplast genetic transformation. However, it is recently possible to transform the chloroplasts of other major food and economic crops including rice, soybean, and cotton. Chloroplast-transformed crops will be able to replace bioreactors using microorganisms for production of value-added proteins in future.
- ISSN
- 1229-2818
- Publisher
- Korea Soc-Assoc-Inst
- DOI
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5010/JPB.2006.33.3.185
- Type
- Article
- Appears in Collections:
- Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Institute > Cell Factory Research Center > 1. Journal Articles
Division of Research on National Challenges > Plant Systems Engineering Research > 1. Journal Articles
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