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Chloroplast Division
Author(s) -
Glynn Jonathan M.,
Miyagishima Shinya,
Yoder David W.,
Osteryoung Katherine W.,
Vitha Stanislav
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.677
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1600-0854
pISSN - 1398-9219
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00545.x
Subject(s) - biology , plastid , division (mathematics) , chloroplast , fission , cell division , evolutionary biology , cyanobacteria , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene , cell , physics , arithmetic , mathematics , quantum mechanics , neutron , bacteria
Chloroplasts are descendants of cyanobacteria and divide by binary fission. Several components of the division apparatus have been identified in the past several years and we are beginning to appreciate the plastid division process at a mechanistic level. In this review, we attempt to summarize the most recent developments in the field and assemble these observations into a working model of plastid division in plants.