Tracey A. Ruhlman

TL;DR: A robust phylogenetic estimate provides an evolutionary framework for examining patterns and rates of change in plastid genomes across angiosperms and suggests aberrant DNA repair mechanisms may be involved in destabilizing these plastids.

TL;DR: T-helper 2 (Th2) lymphocyte-mediated oral tolerance is a likely mechanism for the prevention of pancreatic insulitis and the preservation of insulin-producing beta-cells, and a strategy for the treatment of various other autoimmune diseases.

TL;DR: The finding that unique lettuce flanking sequences were completely eliminated during homologous recombination in the transplastomic tobacco genomes but not unique tobacco sequences underscore the need for sequencing complete crop chloroplast genomes, utilization of endogenous regulatory elements and flanked sequences, as well as optimization of plant growth regulators for efficient chloropleft transformation.

TL;DR: This chapter presents an overview of some of the seminal and contemporary research that has contributed to the current understanding of plastome evolution and attempt to highlight the relationship between evolutionary mechanisms and tools ofplastid genetic engineering.

TL;DR: Six complete plastome sequences from economically important species of the inverted-repeat-lacking clade (IRLC) of papilionoid legumes are presented, a lineage previously represented by only five completed plastomes.