Variation in Plastid Number
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 62 (4), 558-562
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.62.4.558
Abstract
Changes in the physiological state of the multiplastidic alga O. luteus result in a shift in chloroplast complement from 33-21 plastids. The effect of this induced change in organelle complement on nuclear and chloroplast DNA levels was analyzed. Data suggest that the absolute amount of chloroplast and nuclear DNA found within a cell remains constant but that the amount of chloroplast DNA per plastid is inversely proportional to the number of chloroplasts to which that DNA must be distributed.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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