Journal
JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH
Volume 123, Issue 2, Pages 207-230Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-009-0306-9
Keywords
Maternal inheritance; Uniparental inheritance; Biparental inheritance; Mitochondria; Plastid (chloroplast); Active digestion of DNA; Organelle nuclei (nucleoid)
Categories
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [19207004]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In most sexual organisms, including isogamous, anisogamous and oogamous organisms, uniparental transmission is a striking and universal characteristic of the transmission of organelle (plastid and mitochondrial) genomes (DNA). Using genetic, biochemical and molecular biological techniques, mechanisms of uniparental (maternal and parental) and biparental transmission of organelle genomes have been studied and reviewed. Although to date there has been no cytological review of the transmission of organelle genomes, cytology offers advantages in terms of direct evidence and can enhance global studies of the transmission of organelle genomes. In this review, I focus on the cytological mechanism of uniparental inheritance by active digestion of male or female organelle nuclei (nucleoids, DNA) which is universal among isogamous, anisogamous, and oogamous organisms. The global existence of uniparental transmission since the evolution of sexual eukaryotes may imply that the cell nuclear genome continues to inhibit quantitative evolution of organelles by organelle recombination.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available