Chloroplast

Dear Colleagues,

Chloroplasts are at the front line of many molecular biology advances, ranging from evolutionary biology to the mechanism of energy transduction, and also includes stress responses and programmed leaf death. In addition to the relevance of basic knowledge, advances are unveiling promising insights to improve plant productivity, disease resistance, and environmental control. The production of secondary metabolites and proteins by transformed chloroplasts add further excitement to applied investigations on chloroplasts.

Papers submitted to this Special Issue must report high novelty results and/or plausible and testable new models. The molecular basis of the conversion of light to chemical energy in photosystems is a reference topic. In addition, the structure and function of other components of the photosynthesis machinery, plastid genomic, plastid biogenesis and senescence, metabolism, reactive oxygen species and membrane transport are also of interest, with a special emphasis on the gene level and evolutionary comparisons. Significant advances on chloroplast transformation are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Bartolome Sabater
Guest Editor

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