Light perception by the plant photoreceptor phytochrome requires the tetrapyrrole chromophore
phytochromobilin (PϕB), which is covalently attached to a large apoprotein. Arabidopsis …

The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

Targeted genome modification technologies are key tools for functional genomics. The
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated endonuclease …

Abstract Analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of a liverwort Marchantia polymorpha by
electron microscopy and restriction endonuclease mapping indicated that the liverwort …

The thallus, the gametophyte body of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, develops clonal
progenies called gemmae that are useful in the isolation and propagation of isogenic plants. …

Chloroplasts contain their own autonomously replicating DNA genome. The majority of
proteins present in the chloroplasts are encoded by nuclear DNA, but the rest are encoded by …

The ZIM domain was originally identified in the ZIM protein (BAA97679; Zinc-finger protein
expressed in Inflorescence Meristem). Since then it has been found in other proteins and the …

The HY1 locus of Arabidopsis is necessary for phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis and
is defined by mutants that show a long hypocotyl phenotype when grown in the light. We …

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation has not been practical in pteridophytes, bryophytes
and algae to date, although it is commonly used in model plants including Arabidopsis and …

Phytobilins are linear tetrapyrrole precursors of the light-harvesting prosthetic groups of the
phytochrome photoreceptors of plants and the phycobiliprotein photosynthetic antennae of …