As the site of photosynthesis,
the chloroplast is the defining organelle of green plants and may be
thought of as the world’s
life-support system. We have chosen it for functional genomics studies
because it produces many molecules important to agriculture and human
health yet is similar in complexity to a bacterial cell.
Recent publications from the project:
Lu, Y. and R.L. Last 2008. Web-Based Arabidopsis Functional and Structural Genomics Resources: October 28, 2008. The Arabidopsis Book. Rockville, MD: American Society of Plant Biologists. doi: 10.1199/tab.0118, http://www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/
To read this paper click here
DellaPenna, D and R.L. Last 2008. The expanding universe of genomics enabled plant biochemistry. Science. 320:479-481.
To read this paper click here.
(updated 04/09)
The pipeline continues to accept new homozygous lines as they become available and the first version of the data analysis tools database is being tested by project members.
To take advantage of new in silico and experimental analysis we have expanded the universe of genes that are being included in our analysis. These genes are from stromal proteomics data from Klaas van Wijk at Cornell University and annotation made available from the SubCellular Proteomic Database (SUBA) at the Plant Energy Biology Centre of Excellence in Australia.
The gene list can be found elsewhere on this website.
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Phenotypic data has been released
A large set of phenotypic
data from the project has been released. Please check click here and establish a user account to access the data using our data analysis tools.
Congratulations to:
Kayla Kerr, recipient of the MSU Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program Alumni Assoc. Outstanding Senior Award. Kayla has worked as an undergraduate researcher on the project for three years. Job well done!
Yan Lu, recipient of the 2009 Anton Lang Memorial Postdoctoral Researcher Award from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory.
Protocols that we use for this project are accessible through this website. For more information click here.
Do you have homozygous mutant lines for known or putative plastid targeted proteins? We would like to include your mutants in our pipeline. Please contact Rob Last.
Chloroplast 2010 is a collaborative Arabidopsis functional genomics project funded by a National Science Foundation grant to Michigan State University.
