REPORTS FROM COORDINATORS

Coordinator's report: Nuclear genes affecting the chloroplast

Diter von Wettstein

Department of Crop and Soil Sciences,Washington State University,
Pullman WA 99164-6420
E-mail: diter@wsu.edu

The stock list and genetic information presented in the Barley Genetics Newsletter 21: 102-108 is valid and up-to-date.

Recent references:

P.E. Jensen, R.D. Willows, B. Larsen Petersen, U.C. Vothknecht, B.M. Stummann, C.G. Kannangara, D. von Wettstein & K.W. Henningsen. 1996. Structural genes for Mg-chelatase subunits in barley: Xantha-f, -g and -h.Mol. Gen. Genet. 250:383-394.

C.G. Kannangara, U.C. Vothknecht, M. Hansson & D. von Wettstein. 1997. Magnesium chelatase: association with ribosomes and mutant complementation studies identify barley subunit Xantha-G as a functional counterpart of Rhodobacter subunit BchD. Mol. Gen. Genet. (in press).