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An in vivo test system was developed to study group II intron splicing in higher plant chloroplasts. The chimeric reporter gene uidA was constructed by translational fusion of an intron-containing segment of the plastid atpF gene with the coding region of a plastid uidA reporter gene. The chimeric uidA gene was inserted into the tobacco plastid genome by the biolistic transformation procedure using a plastid targeting vector. Correct intron excision was confirmed by Northern blot analysis, by sequencing amplified cDNAs and by accumulation of the encoded beta-glucuronidase (GUS), the expression of which was dependent on intron removal. Removal of the intron from the uidA mRNA is less efficient (&lt; 50%) than from the atpF mRNA (&gt; 90%). The efficiency of atpF mRNA splicing is not affected in the plasmid transformants indicating that inefficient splicing of the highly-expressed uidA mRNA is not due to depletion of factor(s) required for the atpF intron removal. A derivative of uidA, with a stop codon introduced into the loop of domain VI, was also tested. The mutations did not affect the splicing efficiency. The chimeric uidA splicing system will facilitate the study of structural and sequence requirements for group II intron splicing in plastids of higher plants.

Correct splicing of a group II intron from a chimeric reporter gene transcript in tobacco plastids