Abstract
Cellular homeostasis requires precise communication between various types of organelles. In particular, the communication between nucleus and semiautonomous organelles, mitochondria and chloroplasts, has received widespread attention. Communication from nucleus to other organelles is known as anterograde signaling, whereas communication from mitochondria or chloroplasts to the nucleus is known as retrograde signaling. Here we discuss methods used to study retrograde signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. These methods may also be modified to study retrograde signaling in other plant species.
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MB was supported by an IPRS scholarship at University of Western Australia, funded by Australian Government, OVA was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Program (DP160103573), Crafoord Foundation (Grant 20170862) and Swedish Research Council (VR 2017-03854). This work was supported by the facilities of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence Program (CE140100008).
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Broda, M., Van Aken, O. (2018). Studying Retrograde Signaling in Plants. In: De Gara, L., Locato, V. (eds) Plant Programmed Cell Death. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1743. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7668-3_7
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