The Scientist : Transplastomic tomatoes [3/9/2001]

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010903-01

3 September 2001

Plants have three genomes, each contained in a separate cellular compartment; the nucleus, the mitochondrion and the plastid. The higher plant plastid genome is a double-stranded circle of 120-160 kb, encoding about 130 genes. The development of plastid transgene applications has been hampered by the technical limitations of tissue culture and regeneration protocols.

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