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chloroplast fission

Known as: chloroplast division 
The division of a chloroplast within a cell to form two or more separate chloroplast compartments. This division occurs independently of mitosis… 
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Plastid division: evolution, mechanism and complexity.
BACKGROUND The continuity of chloroplasts is maintained by division of pre-existing chloroplasts. Chloroplasts originated as… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Overexpression of the Arabidopsis thalianaMinE1 bacterial division inhibitor homologue gene alters chloroplast size and morphology in transgenic Arabidopsis and tobacco plants
Abstract. Higher-plant chloroplast division requires some of the same genes that are involved in prokaryotic cell division. These… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Cell and chloroplast division requires ARTEMIS
Chloroplasts are endosymbiotic organelles of cyanobacterial origin. It seems reasonable to assume that cell division and… 
2001
2001
Femtosecond near-infrared lasers as a novel tool for non-invasive real-time high-resolution time-lapse imaging of chloroplast division in living bundle sheath cells of Arabidopsis
Abstract. Non-linear excitation of fluorophores by contemporaneous absorption of two or more near-infrared (NIR) photons… 
2001
2001
Chloroplast targeting of chloroplast division FtsZ2 proteins in Arabidopsis.
Plant nuclear genomes encode chloroplast division proteins homologous to the eubacterial cell division protein FtsZ. In higher… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Characterization of Chloroplast Division Using the Arabidopsis Mutant arc5
arc5 is a chloroplast division mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana. To identify the role of ARC5 in the chloroplast replication… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Chloroplast DNA levels and the control of chloroplast division in light-grown wheat leaves.
Plastids at different stages of development were isolated from light-grown wheat (Triticum aestivum, var. Maris Dove) seedling… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Induction and regulation of chloroplast replication in mature tobacco leaf tissue.
Chloroplast replication was induced in mature tobacco leaf tissue (Nicotiana tabacum L.) by culturing leaf discs on a sterile… 
1966
1966
THE SYNTHESIS OF CYTOPLASMIC DNA IN SYNCHRONIZED EUGLENA
Chloroplastic D N A in Euglena gracilis is selfreplicating (7), and presumably contains information directing reproduction and… 
1963
1963
CHLOROPLAST DIVISION IN THE GAMETOPHYTE OF THE FERN MATTEUCCIA STRUTHIOPTERIS (L.) TODARO
The mechanism by which fully developed chloroplasts divide has been reported to consist of an initial constriction around the… 
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