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Meaning of "plastid"

A plastid is a double-membrane organelle found in the cells of plants and algae. Plastids are responsible for processes such as photosynthesis, starch storage, and pigment production
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  • Any of various organelles found in the cells of plants and algae, often concerned with photosynthesis

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Plastid evenly distributed with good flexibility.
The identified plastid sequences are then isolated.
Plastid gene transformation is based on homologous recombination.
In order to manipulate plastid gene expression pattern.
Each plastid is surrounded by a double membrane.
But under his bandage is plastid instead of cast.
It is a plastid that is colored differently in different cells.
Plastome refers to the genome of a plastid.
Large portions of the plastid volume are occupied by vacuoles.
A chloroplast is a type of organelle known as a plastid.
This plastid is an indispensable thing.
Preferably said targeting signal is a plastid targeting signal.
The plastid defects suggest a high susceptibility to photooxidative bleaching.
Transplastome refers to a transformed plastid genome.
The plastid genetic system of higher plants is highly polyploid.

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It is a type of plastid found in plants.
Plant cells have another type of organelle called a plastid.
Methods for plastid transformation are well known in the art.
Intraplant and interspikelet crosses revealed maternal plastid transmission.
The principle of plastid transformation is insertion of sequences through homologous recombination.
Segregational events are thus avoided using chloroplast or plastid transformation.
Selection of plastid transformants.
Such a function may be any function which is plastid encoded.
Plastid is irreplaceable.
Enhanced expression in a plant plastid.
This sulfolipid is present in plastid membranes and likely is involved in chloroplast functioning.
The editing sites are found primarily upstream of mitochondrial or plastid RNAs.
Nuclear and plastid chromosomes are preferred and a nuclear chromosome is most preferred.
Also have plastid.
Another problem in plastid transformation is the shortage of selectable marker genes available.
The inducible plants can not be generated by plastid transformation alone.
Development of plastid transformation and regeneration protocols for corn and rice.
The following vectors were constructed for transformation into plastid genomes.
Methods of plastid transformation are known in the art for several plant species.
These buds should therefore only be considered a special type of abnormal plastid.
The polypeptide is able to target a plastid inner envelope membrane of a plant cell.
Stable plastid transformation of higher plants has been accomplished so far only in tobacco.
Variant polypeptides do not encompass any naturally occurring plastid transit peptides.
During the reorganization of the plastid the apicoplast lost its ability to photosynthesize.
This is most conveniently provided by regions of homology to the target plastid genome.
These data have been summarized in several plastid protein databases that are available online.
Homoplasmic plants demonstrate a high level of protein expression from the plastid.
The chromoplast of the plant cell is a plastid that is colored differently in different cells.
Primers were also designed to specifically identify integration into the plastid genome.
Details of plastid ultrastructure and morphology vary slightly among the three taxa.
Methods for preferentially increasing activity of an EFTu polypeptide in a plastid are described hereinabove.
This plastid retains a peptidoglycan wall that is an ancestral trait of the cyanobacterial endosymbiont.
The antiserum binds to both the plastid and cytosolic isozymes of this enzyme.
The nucleotides described herein can be directly transformed into the plastid genome.
Any chloroplast or plastid operable promoter is within the scope of the present invention.

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