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The Genetic System in Plant Mitochondria Has Several Special Features

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Author

Editor

  • Lincoln Taiz
  • Eduardo Zeiger

Summary, in English

The genetic systems in mitochondria and plastids differ both structurally and functionally from the nuclear genome and its gene expression. On the other hand, mitochondria share several genetic features with bacteria. For example, several genes are transcribed together and the ribosomes are of a prokaryotic type. This is in line with the evolutionary origin of the mitochondrion as an endosymbiont of the alpha-subclass of Proteobacteria, a group including the intracellular pathogen Ricketsia prowazekii (Gray et al. 1999).

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

6-11

Publication/Series

A Companion to Plant Physiology, 5th edition

Volume

Online 2010

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Sinauer Associates

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

Research group

  • Plant Biology