Tommaso Pellizzer

TL;DR: The web application GeSeq combines batch processing with a fully customizable reference sequence selection of organellar genome records from NCBI and/or references uploaded by the user to support high-quality annotations of chloroplast genomes.

TL;DR: The spectrum of spontaneous mutations in plastids is identified and it is revealed that this spectrum is very different from that in the nucleus and that of bacteria.

TL;DR: Pulsed-field electrophoresis, restriction of high-molecular weight DNA from chloroplasts and gerontoplasts, and CsCl equilibrium centrifugation of single- and double-stranded ptDNA revealed no noticeable fragmentation of the organelle DNA during leaf development, implying that plastid genomes in mesophyll tissues are remarkably stable until senescence.

TL;DR: It is shown that the ability of plastids to compete against each other is a metabolic phenotype determined by extremely rapidly evolving genes in the plastid genome of the evening primrose Oenothera, and uncovers cytoplasmic drive loci controlling the outcome of biparental chloroplast transmission.

TL;DR: In this article, the translational start codon of the plastid gene (accD) was replaced with UUG and GUG, respectively, and the transplastomic results showed that the UUG replacement significantly reduced ACCD expression, whereas the replacement with GUG had no detectable effects.