A Navigator for Chloroplast Gene Expression in Rice

Abstract

The "Chloroplast Net" is a browser (.) based
on accumulating information on chloroplast genes and part of nuclear
genes encoding chloroplast components, like Lhc genes, in higher
plants. Chloroplasts in higher plants are estimated to consist of
2500 - 5000 proteins. Chloroplasts possess only about hundred
genes. Most chloroplast components are predicted to be encoded in
the nuclear genome. In October 2002, the draft genome sequencing of
Rice was achieved, therefore, the huge information about genomes in
Rice will be continued being supplied much more than now.
It is important to build up the relational data base linked
chloroplast genes with nuclear genes encoding chloroplast
components.
The systematical outline of a new relational data base named
"Navigator for Chloroplast/Photosynthesis-related Genes in Rice" is
discussed.
ChloroplastNet managed by NRPG (Nagoya Rice genome Project Group) is
supported by the MAFF of Japan.