Function and evolution of a minimal plastid genome from a nonphotosynthetic parasitic plant.

Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs.

1987 • 2,169 citations

Cell culture and somatic cell genetics of plants

1984 • 1,336 citations

The Biology of Parasitic Flowering Plants.

1970 • 907 citations

The petite mutation in Yeast

1970 • 523 citations

The mechanism and functions of ATP‐dependent proteases in bacterial and animal cells

1992 • 450 citations

Loss of photosynthetic and chlororespiratory genes from the plastid genome of a parasitic flowering plant

1990 • 302 citations

Fine structural features of the chloroplast genome: comparison of the sequenced chloroplast genomes

1991 • 270 citations

THE NATURE OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DIVERGENCE BETWEEN BARLEY AND MAIZE CHLOROPLAST DNA

1984 • 252 citations

Genetic and biochemical implications of the endosymbiotic origin of the chloroplast

1981 • 161 citations

Plastid translation and transcription genes in a non-photosynthetic plant: intact, missing and pseudo genes.

1991 • 160 citations

The genes encoding the two carboxyltransferase subunits of Escherichia coli acetyl-CoA carboxylase.

1992 • 149 citations

Rapid evolution of the plastid translational apparatus in a nonphotosynthetic plant: Loss or accelerated sequence evolution of tRNA and ribosomal protein genes

1992 • 148 citations

Codon recognition mechanisms in plant chloroplasts

1990 • 54 citations

Genes for the plastid elongation factor Tu and ribosomal protein S7 and six tRNA genes on the 73 kb DNA from Astasia longa that resembles the chloroplast DNA of Euglena

1990 • 53 citations

Evidence for replication slippage in the evolution of Oenothera chloroplast DNA.

1991 • 52 citations

Green ancestry of malarial parasites?

1992 • 47 citations

Structure and expression of a gene encoding the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (rbcL) in the colourless euglenoid flagellate Astasia longa

1990 • 47 citations

A divergent plastid genome inConopholis americana, an achlorophyllous parasitic plant

1991 • 39 citations

Pollen-derived rice calli that have large deletions in plastid DNA do not require protein synthesis in plastids for growth

1992 • 36 citations

Evolution of the plastid ribosomal RNA operon in a nongreen parasitic plant: Accelerated sequence evolution, altered promoter structure, and tRNA pseudogenes

1992 • 30 citations

Small single-copy region of plastid DNA in the non-photosynthetic angiosperm Epifagus virginiana contains only two genes

1992 • 30 citations

Organization and nucleotide sequence of ribosomal RNA genes on a circular 73 kbp DNA from the colourless flagellate Astasia longa

1990 • 27 citations

Ins and outs of plastid genome evolution

1991 • 25 citations

Pea chloroplast genes encoding a 4kDa polypeptide of photosystem I and a putative enzyme of C1 metabolism

1991 • 25 citations

An aberrant plastid ribosomal RNA gene cluster in the root parasite Conopholis americana

1992 • 19 citations

Survey of plastid RNA abundance during tomato fruit ripening: the amounts of RNA from the ORF 2280 region increase in chromoplasts

1991 • 16 citations